Spotify Releases a Linux-Only Client Library

f0rk writes "Spotify, a popular music streaming service, has just recently released libspotify. An official, binary-only, only for subscribers, library to 'enable and inspire you to build some really cool stuff.' The first release only has support for x86-32 Linux, the only major platform Spotify does not run on. It looks like the Spotify team is trying to be nice to the Linux community and hope someone will use their restricted binary-only library to write a Linux client."

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Why linux will never be mainstream.

[aristotle-dude]

You guys are all way too busy arguing about how the library is not GPL. Guess what? It's still a free world and the copyright holder can still choose whatever license or distribution method he/she wants because it is their "right" to do so. None of you have the right to dictate which license software you had no part in writing should be distributed. Linux will never become mainstream as long as fanatics sit around talking about the GPL rather than actually writing good software. The average end user does not give a crap about open source other than seeing it as a way to get "free" as in beer software.

I would bet that the vast majority of you advocating or discussing the GPL have probably never written code that is in use by someone other than yourself if any code at all. Stop being such posers. You are great "fans" of linux and open source but would probably never lift a finger to help develop software.

If you expect people to take open source software seriously then you have to take copyright holder rights seriously and get over the illusion that the GPL somehow removes rights from the original author which it does not. No license can do that other than selling of the actual copyright to another party.

BTW. I just love how so many of you automatically assume that they must have stolen GPL code in there. Bloody hypocrites.