On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > El Divendres, 20 de març de 2015, a les 03:17:44, Myriam Schweingruber va > escriure: >> Hi Albert, > > Hi
Hi all, > >> putting the amarok-devel list in Cc, as this concerns Amarok as a whole... >> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: >> > Hi Myriam, i've been told you may know who are the people using the >> > ampache >> > server KDE e.V. inherited from Amarok. >> > >> > That server is a private service that KDE e.V. has no business on running >> > so we want to contact those that use it to tell them they need to take >> > care of paying and running the server themselves, otherwise we will shut >> > it down. >> > >> > Do you happen to know who the people using it are? >> >> Really? A private service? I think you are rather misinformed, there, >> and could simply have asked Ben who knows what it is: it is a test >> instance we (The Amarok Team) need so we can test the Ampache service >> which is part of Amarok. > > I talked with Ben before sending this email. > > Yes, he mentioned he thought it was a test instance, he also said the logs > seem to show it is unused and as far as i understood it has multiple > user/login accounts, which could mean it was an [unused] private service. > > Maybe i should have worded my email more as a "Can you confirm it's a private > service ...". > >> AFAIK we are the only ones to use it, there >> is no public access (so no worries about copyright issues with the >> music), the music on it is not even up-to-date. > > Having music with unclear copyright may not worry you, it does worry me a lot, > music companies don't seem to like it and I'm sure we both agree it wouldn't > be cool if the KDE eV would get sued because of it. > >> So I really see no reason why you would shut it down as it a) doesn't >> take much space and b) it is after all on the server Amarok donated to >> KDE (including the rather big lump of money that came with it), and c) >> we need an Ampache server so we can test something, I am rather >> surprised you would want to shut it down... > > I don't want to shut it down, I am acting at a request of sysadmin that raised > the issue of having files with unclear copyright in what seemed to be an > unused service, so the easiest route was just shutting it down (or passing > ownership to someone else). > >> Amarok is part of KDE, and my understanding is that we can use the >> KDE infrastructure to develop our software, and the Amapche server is >> part of that.I would find it rather sad if the eV board suddenly >> decides otherwise... > > If an Ampache instance is needed to test Amarok, sysadmin has no objections > to us setting up a clean instance if need be, and loading a few > creative commons files into it for testing purposes, but we should not risk > ourselves to get sued for no reason. > > So please can developers confirm it is needed? Any news on this? > > Cheers, > Albert > >> >> >> Regards, Myriam > Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
