[Fedora-legal-list] Concern about the Clementine music player application

[Tom Callaway]

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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