Re: libspotify in non-free?

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:27 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2012/1/4 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter(a)lesbg.com&gt;: > > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:42 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > >> 2012/1/4 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter(a)lesbg.com&gt;: > >> > 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 ? When I build mopidy from source, it works. There's a file in the source tarball that's called spotify_appkey.key, so I'm assuming that's the application key.