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[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of mytunes - an mp3 player. - savannah
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of mytunes - an mp3 player. - savannah.nongnu.org |
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29 Sep 2003 08:51:40 +0200 |
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Hi,
I have approved your project.
About inclusion in the gnu project, check
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html>
I would like to bring to your attention that mp3 is a proprietary
format encumbered with several patents. Even if it's currently free as
beer, it is not free as in freedom of speech.
There's a good alternative, which is called ogg vorbis. It would be
very nice if your software support also this format.
Regards,
address@hidden said:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> William Cahill <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: mytunes - an mp3 player.
> System name: mytunes
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> mytunes is going to be a wonderful new mp3 player. I had searched the web,
> including the savannah sites, for mp3 players, and couldn't find any ones to
> my liking, particularly any made for NeXT/Open/GNUstep. So I started my own.
> The current (almost ready?) source code can be found at
> http://thuhfreak.isa-geek.com/~bill/mytunes.tar.gz (theres also a bz2'd
> version). I say almost ready because I still have to work out some gui
> issues, fix audio, but generally everything I want for the first release is
> there. I had originally intended it to be an xmms-frontend (so you may
> notice references to xmms throughout the code/gui), but I decided to switch
> gears and go without xmms. The main advantage (I hope) that mytunes will
> have over other, players (like xmms) is reasonable playlist support. I have
> recently switched from osx to gnu/linux, and I had loved iTunes and how it
> handled all that. So I wanted to mimic iTunes smart playlists, and interface
> a bit. I, of course, won't refer to that program directly in the public
> description. I tried to keep pretty strict to myself about GPL issues. I
> made sure to have a notice at the top of every page, and to have the COPYING
> file at the root. And, about the files that came up before (this is my
> second registration attempt): I had been trying several different id3
> libraries (GPL'd or similar), and had intended to link with them, but in
> testing I had their source mixed with mine (sorry). I think I got rid of all
> of them from the source directory.
>
> Other Software Required:
> mytunes depends on GNUstep, Open/NeXTstep, or Mac OS X, or similar system
> (foundation and appkit libraries). I made it on GNUstep, but hopefully I
> avoided any GNU-specific extensions for portability's sake. It also uses
> libmad for mpeg->pcm conversion, and libid3tag for reading (and eventually
> writing) id3 tags.
>
> Other Comments:
> I would also be interested, if I meet the requirements, for mytunes to be a
> part of the GNU project.
>
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