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Andre Moreira Magalhaes <andrunko[@]gmail.com>
Jonathan Matthew <jonathan[@]d14n.org>
William Jon McCann  <jmccann[@]redhat.com>
W. Michael Petullo <mike[@]flyn.org>
Charles Schmidt <cschmidt2[@]gmail.com>
Alexandre Rosenfeld <alexandre.rosenfeld[@]gmail.com>
Noah Alcantara <black.ic[@]gmail.com>

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. A few other developers, most
notably Jonathan Matthew and William Jon McCann, contributed to the
DAAP plugin after it was integrated into the Rhythmbox project.

Later, Andre Magalhaes expanded Charles' code into a general purpose
DMAP library, libdmapsharing.  This library was used by a product
called Canola and was 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 libdmapsharing project was moved
from SourceForge to GNOME Git in August of 2009.

Alexandre Rosenfeld added initial DACP support to libdmapsharing while
working on his 2010 Google Summer of Code project.

Noah Alcantara contributed client-side support for mDNS/DNS-SD on Mac
OS X early in 2011.

The original authors of Rhythmbox's DAAP plugin have endorsed the
re-licensing of their code to LGPL 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

Alexandre Rosenfeld also confirmed that the GPL notice on dacp-player.[ch]
was not intentional:

	Sure, sorry about that, I used a template for that code, it was never my
	intention to make it GPL....

	*Alexandre Rosenfeld*

	On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 14:46, W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org> wrote:

	> Alexandre,
	>
	> I just noticed that dacp-player.[ch] are licensed as GPL. This should
	> be LGPL because libdmapsharing is LGPL. May I have your permission to
	> change the license of these files to LGPLv2.1+?

Andre Moreira Magalhaes approved the use of LGPL for test-dmap-client.c.

	Please do it, no problem at all

	BR
	Andre

	> Andre,
	>
	> I have been maintaining libdmapsharing and recently noticed that
	> tests/test-dmap-client.c and test-dmap-server.c are licensed as
	> GPL and you are the copyright holder. May I change this to LGPLv2.1+ in
	> order to match the rest of libdmapsharing? This will make distribution
	> easier as packages may be licensed at LGPLv2.1+ only.
	>
	> --
	> Mike