Re: [mpd-devel] upmpdcli is illegal

2018-11-04 Thread Maarten de Vries
Ah, my mistake. I indeed interpreted Marcus Kellerman as Max Kellerman. It seemed close enough :) And indeed, if those patches don't end up linked with libspotify it would not infringe on their copyright. I would seriously consider switching to a different license if feasible, just to be sure

Re: [mpd-devel] upmpdcli is illegal

2018-11-04 Thread Jean-Francois Dockes
Just responding to this specific point for the moment: I don't think that Max Kellerman has any code in upmpdcli. There are some patches from Marcus Kellerman (different first name). In any case, these patches are in an external module (the Python gmusic module, not linked with upmpdcli), so they

Re: [mpd-devel] upmpdcli is illegal

2018-11-04 Thread Maarten de Vries
Small correction: I just noticed that Max actually does have some patches in the project, so he is a copyright holder. Kind regards, Maarten de Vries On 04-11-18 14:59, Maarten de Vries wrote: Hi, I've followed this GPL crusade with interest and some appreciation. GPL violations are a

[mpd-devel] upmpdcli is illegal

2018-11-04 Thread Max Kellermann
Hi Jean-Francois, today, I came across your project due to a MPD bug report. I'm sorry I have to tell you that your project is illegal. You claim that it is licensed under the terms of the GPL, but your code repository ships with a C header from the proprietary Spotify API: