Thanks, Mike! It will be quite nice to have Libdmapsharing to start with. I checked the GNOME GSoC ideas and found that the one you added into GNOME is bigger than the one in the Mono. Should I submit the proposal to GNOME or Mono, or both of them?
THANKS! Warm regards, Song Gao -------------------------------------------------- School of Computer Science China University of Geosciences(Wuhan) http://songgao.weebly.com/ On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 21:54, W. Michael Petullo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am interested in one of the Mono GSoC projects for F-Spot, aiming to > > implement a managed DPAP library, and I wish to apply to GSoC with this > > project. I have a few questions here: > > > 1) It seems that DPAP is not an open protocol. I could not find any > detailed > > document describing it. There's some document about Apple's services' > ports > > usage, but it's far not sufficient to implement a library which is > > completely compatible with iPhoto. Do I need to analyze its network > packets > > to acquire its details? > > Libdmapsharing is a DMAP/DAAP/DPAP/DACP implementation written in C > (http://www.flyn.org/projects/libdmapsharing/). The project uses GNOME > Git and GNOME Bugzilla. I think libdmapsharing is a good basis for a > C# DPAP implementation. In fact, I included F-Spot DPAP support in the > GNOME Google Summer of Code project idea page. I am a Google Summer of > Code mentor and would be willing to sponsor such a project, assuming 1) > it has a solid proposal and 2) someone in the F-Spot community indicates > that they would be interested in a well-written DPAP patch. I don't have > any experience with C#, but am the primary maintainer of libdmapsharing. > > > 2) There's a DPAP library in Perl written by Leon Brocard ( > > http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Net-DPAP-Client/lib/Net/DPAP/Client.pm). > Is > > it a good way to derive from it? (Of course the DPAP API in mono should > be > > designed similar in usage to the DAAP used for banshee.) However it does > not > > support password-protected shares. Is it because that encrypted data is > hard > > to analyze? Is encryption included in the plan of this Mono library? > > Libdmapsharing is written in C using GObject. I think it would make a > good starting point for your project. > > > 3) I found this in an Apple's mailing list: > > http://lists.apple.com/archives/bonjour-dev/2008/Jan/msg00022.html It > seems > > that it is not allowed to implement DPAP independently from Apple, at > least > > not allowed for commercial use. However, according to Mono GSoC rule, all > of > > the code submitted must be contributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 > > License, and Apache 2.0 allows commercial use. Is this a conflict? > > Libdmapsharing, dmapd, mt-daapd, the Perl code, etc. all implement > DMAP. Roku, who is the only vendor to actually license Apple's DAAP, > recommends using mt-daapd with their products (and Apple must be aware > of this). Libdmapsharing is licensed under the LGPL. > > -- > Mike > > :wq >
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