libspotify in non-free?

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 14:27:21 CET 2012


2012/1/4 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at lesbg.com>:
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:42 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>> 2012/1/4 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at lesbg.com>:
>> > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 22:55 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>> >> On 04/01/12 22:31, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>> >> > Does anyone object to putting libspotify into non-free?  I've put
>> >> > together a package, but I'm not sure what their redistribution policy
>> >> > is.  The main thing in their Terms of Use seems to be that it's for
>> >> > non-commercial use, but I don't think that's a problem for non-free.
>> >> For those of us not in the know: What is the URL to point to some info
>> >> about the software ?
>> >
>> > Sorry, here it is:
>> > http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It might be redistributable but then for which usage ?
>> Do you know a package that will use this library and at the same time,
>> don't plan to embed the exact libspotify version they will use to
>> instead, rely on a system library ?
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure about what the application key is for ?
>
> I'm looking at mopidy (http://www.mopidy.com) which is a MPD server that
> uses Spotify as it's music source.  It doesn't come with libspotify
> bundled, and I've put together packages for it, pyspotify, libspotify
> and pykka.  AFAIC, whatever application key is needed is embedded in
> mopidy.  FWIW, Mopidy, pyspotify and pykka are all licensed under ASL
> 2.0.

OK, But then this just move the problem elsewhere.
What is the application key for mopidy allowed to be redistributed ?
Will we be able to build mopidy from source and bundle their key ?

Nicolas (kwizart)


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