Re: [Banshee-List] Concerts plugin

[Felipe Castillo <fcastillousfq gmail com>]

I'm attaching the answer I got from Songkick regarding their API key, I don't
think we have a problem with it at all, so if anybody wants they can start the
development of this extension and request an API key.

You can find the original message here:
http://groups.google.com/group/songkick-api/browse_thread/thread/93f65c27853bb86b

I also created a bug (feature request) on Bugzilla, here's a link to that: Bug ID 647589


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From: Sabrina Leandro <sabr    songkick com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:39:40 +0100
Local: Thurs, Apr 21 2011 11:39 am
Subject: Re: Terms of Use for Open Source

Hi Felipe,

Unfortunately, for open source applications you have no choice but to
expose the API key. There are other open source projects that had the
same problem using our API.

In those cases, we asked the project to add a comment above the API
key line that says something like:
"If you'd like to use Songkick's API please request your own API key
from http://developer.songkick.com".

If you ever feel that someone might be misusing your api key, let me
know and we can issue a new one. We know security by obfuscation is
not security, but for now, there's no way around it.

thanks

-- 
Sabrina Leandro
http://www.songkick.com/users/saleandro

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frank <funtastix googlemail com> wrote:

The licensing for SongKick is problematic for open source software:

4.1 All calls to the Songkick API must reference the API Key issued to you as an approved licensee. You will not share the API Key and any other authentication details with any third party.

You want to try and ask about exceptions?

On 12 April 2011 04:12, Felipe Castillo <fcastillousfq gmail com> wrote:

Hello everybody

I've been using Banshee for a really long time, but I've also been using songbird (even though it's not officially supported for linux) just because it has a plugin to check on the concerts of my library artists in my city. This feature is one of the best, I almost never miss a concert of my favorite artist.
I was looking around and this plugin is powered by Songkick, I'm don't know if you guys have heard of it, but it's pretty good to track your artist concerts in any city you want in the world. Aparently it's not too hard to use they have a nice API, here's a link to it: http://www.songkick.com/developer

The terms of service is pretty straight forward and doesn't have any weird stuff, you just have to put somewhere that Songkick is the one providing the info, with a logo. And add a link to the page, but that's pretty obvious because after displaying the artist on tour in your city you'll want to click on them to find more info or even buy the tickets.

I wish I knew how to program better so I could develop this by myself, but I hope somebody likes this idea and decides to implement it. It'll be awesome!!!

--
Felipe Castillo

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