Re: [mpd-devel] Roon RAAT SDK license

2018-01-31 Thread Brian Luczkiewicz
Thanks, I did an independent analysis of their firmware yesterday night and have a clear picture. I explained my findings to the non-technical people at Cary. They understand the situation and that it cannot be ignored. I expect that they will want to discuss this with their developers next. I wi

Re: [mpd-devel] Roon RAAT SDK license

2018-01-30 Thread Max Kellermann
Thanks so far, Brian; I contacted Cary Audio last week, but did not get a reply. All they did was switch off the server which had firmware downloads, but I was able to pull a mirror of it. It looks like Cary Audio outsourced the MPD related work to a Chinese contractor who didn't know or care abo

Re: [mpd-devel] Roon RAAT SDK license

2018-01-30 Thread Brian Luczkiewicz
Hi Max, Thanks for getting in touch with us. Proper use of open source software is something that we take seriously, and linking our SDK libraries against GPL licensed software is as much a violation of our license agreement as it is yours. We do not condone or support this behavior. It was a sur

[mpd-devel] Roon RAAT SDK license

2018-01-30 Thread Max Kellermann
Hi Roon Labs, I'm the lead developer (and major copyright holder) of the Music Player Daemon (MPD), a free music player software which you may have heard of. I found out that Cary Audio ships your RAAT SDK code with their PMS-500 product (https://www.caryaudio.com/products/dms-500-network-audio-p