Banshee and Mono [LWN.net]

Banshee and Mono

Posted Feb 7, 2010 5:48 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Banshee and Mono by drag
Parent article: New GNOME Journal articles

Rhythmbox is not plain GPL but GPL with exceptions specifically to avoid
this problem as seen in the footer of

http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

to post comments

Banshee and Mono

Posted Feb 7, 2010 11:53 UTC (Sun) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link] (3 responses)

That exception wasn't always there, the relicensing happened maybe two years ago.

Banshee and Mono

Posted Feb 7, 2010 13:09 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Sure but it is way past time for licensing to be considered a disadvantage
for Rhythmbox

Banshee and Mono

Posted Feb 7, 2010 14:38 UTC (Sun) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

Who said it was a disadvantage still?
I was just stating one of the reasons why Banshee was created by the Novell
folks, originally.

I am sure there are other resaons, too. Banshee is not the only media player
to be created since Rhythmbox was created. Exaile, for example.

Banshee and Mono

Posted Feb 7, 2010 14:59 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I never claimed you said that but it is important to point out that the
reason is not valid anymore and the effort require to license was much less
than the effort require to create another from scratch