[Mageia-dev] LastFm going subscription
Remy CLOUARD
shikamaru at mageia.org
Tue Dec 18 20:40:04 CET 2012
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:06:10PM -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:26 -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > Beginning Tuesday 15 January 2013 radio streaming within the desktop
> > client will only be available to Last.fm subscribers (monthly fee).
> >
> > Due to this should not lastfm-player either be dropped or moved to
> > nonfree now before Mga3 goes final?
>
> The player can be free (libre, open source) even if the service is not.
>
> Of course, it may well be less useful...
>
> Liam
I second that. It’s not because the service is not free of charge
anymore that the code becomes non-free. Since it’s GPLv2+, it should not
leave core, neither be dropped.
Regards,
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