Re: flickr and f-spot

[Alvaro del Castillo <acs openshine com>]

Hi!

El lun, 26-09-2005 a las 15:16 -0500, Larry Ewing escribió:
> Having said that it looks like the 1.4 release is in fact dual licensed
> CPL/LGPL so it can in fact be used. Many thanks to Alvaro and for
> starting that conversation and a huge thanks to Sam Judson for listening
> and changing the license.

Yes, these are great news because now we have green light to use the
library in F-Spot.

> 
> Alvaro do you have plans to for extending fixing the flickr support?
> 

I have used FlickrNET in the importing from Flickr feature so I think I
could invest sometime converting the exporting to Flickr feature in
F-Spot in order to use FlickrNET and use the new authentication system.
But before that, I want to finish the work in the duplicate patch. I
have sent a last version of the patch with improvements in the GUI.

Cheers

-- Alvaro


> --Larry
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:05 -0500, Larry Ewing wrote:
> > It is licensed under the CPL and is therefore incompatable with F-Spot's
> > Gnu GPL license.  Alvaro started a conversation with them about dual
> > licensing the code but as far as I know nothing has come of it.  Part of
> > the reason I haven't looked closer at the new auth stuff is that I'm
> > hoping to be able to use Flickr.Net, but that is looking less and less
> > likely as time goes by.
> > 
> > --Larry
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:30 -0230, Rocky Burt wrote:
> > > Have you tried just using flickr.net from http://flickrdotnet.wdevs.com 
> > > rather than implementing your own flickr access?  Or is flickr.net 
> > > Windows-specific?
> > > 
> > > In other words, would you be interested if I gave it a quick shot to 
> > > integrate with flickr.net ?
> > > 
> > > - Rocky
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Larry Ewing wrote:
> > > > The flickr export code only works with the old flickr style from
> > > > authentication before they merged with yahoo, newly created accounts
> > > > probabyly don't work at all.  Flickr is moving to a completely new auth
> > > > mechanism that is significantly more complex, f-spot needs to be updated
> > > > to use the new mechanism.
> > > > 
> > > > If someone familiar with .net and web services wants to look into it I'd
> > > > be very appreciative.  Otherwise, it is on my list of things to do, but
> > > > that list is very long.
> > > > 
> > > > --Larry
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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