Subject: It's illegal use UADE into ANR by a plugin like in XMMS?

From: Guest
Date: Sun May 8 17:50:11 2005

To: Kohina-UADE-Forum
http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=1115329750&amp;category=files&amp;start=1&amp;14

It's illegal? Probably those amiga developers must be informed about GPL licenses, maybe if they understand that better, they use on his weird (but interesting) audio player for amiga...

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From: shd
Date: Sun May 8 19:49:55 2005

To: Kohina-UADE-Forum
[quote:ed83333ecc="Anonymous"]http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=1115329750&amp;category=files&amp;start=1&amp;14

It's illegal? Probably those amiga developers must be informed about GPL licenses, maybe if they understand that better, they use on his weird (but interesting) audio player for amiga...[/quote:ed83333ecc]

Considering this comment of itix on ann.lu:

[quote:ed83333ecc="itix"]
it's not legal if converting UADE into uade.player, but doing uade.player as a plugin interface that communicates with the real UADE, it completely possible and legal. XMMS plugin does that even being not necessary
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This is a gray area in general. If UADE is used through RPC (remote procedure call) protocol only to circumvent GPL then perhaps it is not allowed. However, if that particular RPC protocol would be used with free players as well (like XMMS), then it could make the RPC protocol allowed for all programs (including ANR &amp; such). Consider a posix sh (shell) implementation (something like bash) licensed in GPL. It is allowed for any script with any license to use the functionality of shell because there is a standard protocol for doing it. We can't speak for UAE people who have copyrights for big parts of UADE, but if there would be such an RPC protocol (that is already used by some free player) then we would not say it's illegal. Notice that the free player that uses the RPC protocol must come first (and it should support all parts of the RPC protocol).

Also, the current RPC protocol between XMMS and UADE depends  heavily on unix semantics so it's not supportable under ANR.

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From: shd
Date: Sun May 8 20:49:12 2005

To: Kohina-UADE-Forum
I'm very sorry. I misquoted itix for saying something he didn't. Itix did not say following, but an anonymous person did:

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The reply to that quote still applies =)

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From: Guest
Date: Sun Jun 5 01:33:35 2005

To: Kohina-UADE-Forum
Ok, very nice, time for a multiplatform RPC protocol or using an existant one? :)

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From: Guest
Date: Wed Jul 6 01:41:52 2005

To: Kohina-UADE-Forum
Any news?