Issue with Qobuz / Upnp

[yannig]

Well, the LMS code is on github with a GPL-based license, but when you read the license, this is the first paragraph

SLIM DEVICES LICENSE NOTICE

Please be aware that not all software distributed by Slim Devices
is licensed under the GPL. If you wish to redistribute any of our
software, please be sure to first read the GPL, and then make sure
that you are only distributing materials which we've explicity 
licensed for such use. Feel free to contact us if you have any
questions, or would like permission to distribute our other non-GPL
programs. Also, be aware that standard copyright rules apply in any
case where no particular license is given. 

More to the point, the Qobuz plugin is a third-party effort by a few people. Their code is also on github---in a separate repo---but has no explicit license statement that I could find so we have no idea of its status. The code is written against Qobuz API documentation which last fall was officially withdrawn from public access. (Incidentally, it's written in Perl, so don't expect easily to review it unless, of course, you're a Perl-monger.)

One of the Qobuz-plugin maintainers has said on the slimdevices forum that he's in direct contact with the Qobuz person who deals with outside developers. I suppose this means they've come to some accommodation about the right to use the Qobuz API. On the other hand, the maintainer of upmpdcli, which is moOde's shim to outside streaming servers, has publicly stated he won't work with the Qobuz terms. 

I'm not the decision maker here, but I don't see us getting into the middle of this.

Regards,
Kent

Thank you Kent for your response.

In fact, I do not understand very well all these GNU/Open Source problems...
But what I do know is that I need to be able to use Qobuz with moOde.

I asked Qobuz by private message, (on the fact that it's almost mandatory to pay an additional subscription if you use an opensource renderer).
And I will ask by public message if I don't have a response

Perhaps another idea is to work on an OEM version of moOde...