The author has replied to me in this thread:
http://hivelytracker.com/forum.php?action=viewthread&id=153
He simply says "Credit is fine".
Apparently the issue has come up before in this thread:
http://hivelytracker.com/forum.php?action=viewthread&id=114
In this thread the author states "The freely available replay code is public
domain." The replay code is what I used.
-Tony
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Tony Miller <mcfiredr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I posted the question to them on their forum.
>
> That is indeed where the code came from. Peter does appear to be the author
> of hively tracker. If the forums do not respond soon I'll just email him
> directly.
>
> There are more tunes here:
> http://amigascne.org/abyss/ahx/tunes.html
>
> -Tony
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jeffrey Middleton <jefr...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Max, It looks like there are some samples available from the "tunes"
>> section of the website - http://hivelytracker.com/tunes/
>>
>> Tony, I'm guessing the source code you used came from here:
>> http://www.petergordon.org.uk/files/replayer_linux.tgz
>> This is linked from the download section of the website, where it says the
>> port is by Christopher O'Neill, but the readme says (and hosting suggests)
>> it's by Peter Gordon (p...@petergordon.org.uk). There's also a forum you
>> could post in to ask. It really does look like none of these people ever
>> bothered to think about applying a license to their code, but given the
>> number of ports and informality of the website it seems like they might be
>> amenable to a GPL so it could go into MPD... good luck.
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009/07/25 19:32, Tony Miller <mcfiredr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Subject: [PATCH] This is my patch for my hively/ahx decoder plugin.
>>> This
>>> > allows you to playback .ahx and .hvl files. There is no library for
>>> this
>>> > format, just hvl_replay.c and hvl_replay.h which are distributed by
>>> > hivelytracker.com. This code does not appear to have any license. If
>>> this is
>>> > merged, it should be a configure option, something like,
>>> > "--enable-hively".
>>>
>>> If the code does not have any license, who allowed you to copy it
>>> then? Without explicit permission (usually given by the license),
>>> we're not allowed to use it.
>>>
>>> Please tell me where to download sample files in that format. I've
>>> never heard of it, but I'm always happy to get new decoders into MPD
>>> (once the copyright issue is solved).
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
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