Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Concern about the Clementine music player application
On 03/21/2012 11:27 PM, Ryan Farmer wrote:
Hello,
I have some concerns about the Clementine music player application as
packaged in Fedora. The concerns involve the Spotify integration feature.
The application uses Spotify's trademarks and their copyrighted logo and
suggests that the user pull in a proprietary application called "Spotify
Core" to use the feature. This effectively makes the feature a stub that
pulls in proprietary software.
I'm wondering if any of this is in violation of any Fedora packaging
guidelines for the issues I've raised.
After thorough review, we've concluded this is all in keeping with the
Fedora guidelines:
* The trademark use is in compliance with Spotify's terms of use for
third-party applications.
* The Clementine app as packaged in Fedora is not shipping the spotify
proprietary blob, leaving it up to the user to decide whether they wish
to download it.
~tom
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