[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Music Server

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Joe Wreschnig <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: I explained the licensing situation earlier; everything will be 
either under the GPL or a GPL + something else disjunctive license.
Package: Music Server
System name: ms
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
Our project, MS (Music Server), rethinks the standard interface for playing 
audio files from the ground up. There is an old outline of the project 
available at 
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=piman&itemid=272518#ms which is 
slightly out of date, but describes in detail the goals of the project and the 
reasons for its existence. Basically, our goal is to overcome the limits in 
existing media players by decoupling the user interface from the actual playing 
and playlist management, and create a tree-based playlist rather than a simple 
linear one.

It is written in Ruby rather than C (as the outline talks about), but there 
will probably be Ruby, C, and Perl clients and libraries for communicating with 
the server. The license for any code will be the Ruby license (disjunct 
GPL/clarified Artistic) for Ruby code, the Perl license (disjunct GPL/original 
Artistic) for Perl code, and plain GPL for C code.

It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it (approximately 1100 lines of code 
written already, which is most of the server). It will probably be checked into 
the CVS server within a week of this project\'s approval, if you choose to do 
so.

Other Software Required:
The Ruby 1.6 (or later) interpreter, and ogg123. Currently the MP3 playing 
module does not work with mpg321 (a free clone of mpg123) because of a bug in 
mpg321, and so that module depends on mpg123. Because mpg123 is non-free, we 
will not host that code on Savannah until the mpg321 bug is fixed. In the 
future it will probably depend on mikmod or libmikmod, as well as other (free) 
audio libraries.

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