Andre Moreira Magalhaes <andrunko[@]gmail.com>
W. Michael Petullo <mike[@]flyn.org>

A GObject-based DAAP library was first written as a plugin for
Rhythmbox by Charles Schmidt. This work was done as a part of the
2005 Google Summer of Code program. Later, Andre Magalhaes expanded
Charles' code into a general purpose DMAP library, libdmapsharing.
This library was used by a product called Canola and is available
on SourceForge. The Canola project dropped support for DMAP before
releasing its second version and the development of the libdmapsharing
library stopped. At this point, libdmapsharing supported the client
side of the DMAP protocol.

W. Michael Petullo pulled the libdmapsharing sources from SourceForge
in December of 2008. He began to add support for the server side of
the DMAP protocol, pulling the latest DAAP sharing code from Rhythmbox
and modifying it to support DPAP. Mike's changes were merged back into
the SourceForge in January of 2009 after he was made a member of the
libdmapsharing development team.

The original authors of Rhythmbox's DAAP plugin have endorsed the
relicensing of their code in the following two emails:

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:46:35 -0500
From: Charles Schmidt <cschmidt2[@]gmail.com>
To: "W. Michael Petullo" <mike[@]flyn.org>
Subject: Re: LGPL of Rhythmbox DAAP Code
Cc: "cschmidt2[@]emich.edu" <cschmidt2[@]emich.edu>,
 "jmccann[@]redhat.com" <jmccann[@]redhat.com>,
 "jonathan[@]d14n.org" <jonathan[@]d14n.org>

Totally fine by me.  Is there a website or vcs I can look at?

Charlie Schmidt

On Jan 11, 2009, at 2:30 PM, "W. Michael Petullo" <mike[@]flyn.org> wrote:

> Charles, Jon & Jonathan,
>
> I recently began maintaining the libdmapsharing library, a DMAP  
> library originally based on Rhythmbox's DAAP plugin. The library is  
> distributed under the LGPL license. Your original work was  
> distributed under the GPL.
>
> The original maintainer of libdmapsharing has stated that he  
> obtained permission from you regarding the relicensing of your code  
> to the LGPL. If you do not have any objections, would each of you  
> provide me with a brief statement to this effect that I may formally  
> distribute with libdmapsharing?
>
> The following files were used in developing libdmapsharing:
>
> rb-daap-connection.c
> rb-daap-connection.h
> rb-daap-hash.c
> rb-daap-hash.h
> rb-daap-mdns-avahi.c
> rb-daap-mdns-avahi.h
> rb-daap-mdns-browser-avahi.c
> rb-daap-mdns-browser.h
> rb-daap-mdns-publisher-avahi.c
> rb-daap-mdns-publisher.h
> rb-daap-share.c
> rb-daap-share.h
> rb-daap-structure.c
> rb-daap-structure.h
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike Petullo

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:00:45 +1000
From: Jonathan Matthew <jonathan[@]d14n.org>
To: "W. Michael Petullo" <mike[@]flyn.org>
Subject: Re: LGPL of Rhythmbox DAAP Code

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:30:15PM -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> Charles, Jon & Jonathan,
>
> I recently began maintaining the libdmapsharing library, a DMAP library 
> originally based on Rhythmbox's DAAP plugin. The library is distributed 
> under the LGPL license. Your original work was distributed under the GPL.
>
> The original maintainer of libdmapsharing has stated that he obtained  
> permission from you regarding the relicensing of your code to the LGPL. 
> If you do not have any objections, would each of you provide me with a 
> brief statement to this effect that I may formally distribute with 
> libdmapsharing?
>

sure, why not.

enjoy,

-jonathan
