[mythtv-users] MythSqueezeBox Plugin

Marc Sherman msherman at projectile.ca
Wed Apr 9 14:06:24 UTC 2008


George Galt wrote:
> I've just started looking at Squeezeplay, but it is released under the
> Logitech Public Source License which has a slew of restrictions and
> probably makes it inappropriate for Myth development.
> Softsqueeze/squeezeslave are open source under the GPL 2.0.  I don't
> want to get into some flame war on licensing issues, but I'd have to
> take a much closer look at the Logitech license before I worked off of
> their code.

Yeah, the license is quite unfortunate.

I wonder if it's possible to create a mythplugin that just runs an 
unmodified squeezeplay as a separate process? The plugin would just 
basically be a launcher. The user would then be required to download 
squeezeplay directly from the sd site.

- Marc


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