[Rhythmbox-devel] Questions regarding DAAP library split

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike flyn org>]

I am very interested in finding a C DAAP/DPAP library and have some  
questions about the code in Rhythmbox.

1. The DAAP code was already once pulled out of Rhythmbox to create  
libdmapsharing [1]. However, this project seems to have stalled in  
the last two years. Is this project dead? If so, did the project die  
because the Canola media player now supports UPnP instead of DMAP?

2. Did anything come of the LGPL / GPL issue mentioned at [2]? Was  
Canola shipped in breach of the GPL? Is this why Canola 1 does not  
seem to be available anymore? Would it be possible to get the  
approval of the remaining contributors to relicense the code as LGPL?  
For the record, leaving it GPL is fine for my near-term work, but it  
would be nice to have an LGPL implementation available.

3. Is the rhythmbox project still interested in pulling its DAAP code  
into a separate library if this library is maintained?

4. Who wrote the DMAP/DPAP code for libdmapsharing? As far as I can  
tell by looking as the two projects' RCS's, Andre wrote the DMAP/DPAP- 
specific code and added it to the base he got from rhythmbox.  
However, the license on the code mentions Charles Schmidt.

5. Has anyone looked at adding the server side to libdmapsharing?

Thanks.

Mike

[1] http://libdmapsharing.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libdmapsharing/ 
trunk/libdmapsharing/
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2007-February/ 
msg00002.html