On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:43:19 -0300, Leo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2012 11:47 Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:30:16 +1100, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I noticed an email on fedora-legal about the Clementine music player, > > > and I was wondering if someone had any direct experience with it. > > > > > > The relevant part of the mail is: > > > > The application uses Spotify's trademarks and their copyrighted logo > > > > and suggests that the user pull in a proprietary application called > > > > "Spotify Core" to use the feature. This effectively makes the feature > > > > a stub that pulls in proprietary software. > > > > > > Is Clementine in your distro? could you check if this is a general > > > problem, or just specific to fedora/their release ? > > > thanks, > > > kk > > > > we confirmed this on parabola (i installed it myself) and we > > blacklisted it, but apparently forgot to drop it here, sorry :| > > This anti-feature can be turned off at compile time. > A few days ago (before this thread was started) I was surprised to see it > blacklisted in Parabola so I read a bit about it. > > The spotify stuff can be disabled at build time with these flags: - > DENABLE_SPOTIFY=OFF -DENABLE_SPOTIFY_BLOB=OFF > > I think that's what Parabola did (I saw there's a Clementine-libre in the > repos). > > A thing that wasn't mentioned is that Clementine has some extras (background > tracks to play along with whatever audio file we're playing at the moment). > At > least one of these extras is licensed as CC Sampling+, which, as far as I > know, is nonfree. The extra I'm talking about is rainymood [0]. I don't know > if that can be disabled at compilation time. > > I actually think the rainymood idea is a cool one, so it's a bad thing about > the license. Also, Clementine is a really good music player, so it's a pity > that they do things like these that get it pulled out of distros. > > [0] http://www.rainymood.com/legal.php
mmm no, but the source tarball should be cleaned up too. -- libertad!
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