[Playlist] libSpiff issues

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

On 2/6/07, Sebastian Pipping <webmaster at hartwork.org> wrote:
> Peter and I had a row on Hydrogenaudio some time ago which
> got me banned. My behavior was not very mature. I think I was
> right in what I was saying but maybe not how.
> I doubt he will talk to me again.

Oh.

> The question was where to host the validator.
> I don't know what you mean by "donation" but as I said
> the validator will go GPL later and I meant it.

Good news that you will release the source code and GPL it.

By "donation", I mean that you put the libSpiff under Xiph's projects,
you still become the maintainer, but you use Xiph's SVN, it becomes a
Xiph.Org project, and it's to be licensed under BSD.

Regarding the validator, however, I meant donating not only the code,
but placing it on the official XSPF website, so that it would become
the official validator, and whatnot.

> As far as I know the BSD license allows my code to be
> swallowed by a closed source application without
> getting anything back - no bugfixes, no new features,
> no money - nothing. I don't like this and that is why
> I stick with GNU.

Yes, indeed.  And it's great you stick with GNU.  However, that's not
how things work in Xiph.  I'm repeating myself, but this is the truth.
 And that's why someone (not me, I'm not a C programmer) will sooner
or later have to create our own XSPF library.  Sad, but true.  It's
not a simple world.

> I am currently working on a RFC 3986 URI parser library.
> So this is mainly a question of time.

Great.  Keep us informed.

Also, do you know how Plan 9 handles URLs through/on top of files?
Might be useful.

> The latest release of libSpiff compiled well on several
> operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
> Windows was Non-Cygwin MinGW/GCC and Visual Studio 2003/2005
> which I use in parallel.

Great.  Altogether, it's a shame you aren't part of Xiph and helping
us out directly.

> You mean the programming language?
> How does this relate here?

I've no idea.  In the past two months I've heard a lot of people
saying that Erlang makes it much easier to develop big apps in C++.
If you find out what those people meant, be sure to tell me.

-Ivo