ampache server

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Divendres, 20 de març de 2015, a les 03:17:44, Myriam Schweingruber va
> escriure:
>> Hi Albert,
>
> Hi

Hi all,

>
>> putting the amarok-devel list in Cc, as this concerns Amarok as a whole...
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Myriam, i've been told you may know who are the people using the
>> > ampache
>> > server KDE e.V. inherited from Amarok.
>> >
>> > That server is a private service that KDE e.V. has no business on running
>> > so we want to contact those that use it to tell them they need to take
>> > care of paying and running the server themselves, otherwise we will shut
>> > it down.
>> >
>> > Do you happen to know who the people using it are?
>>
>> Really? A private service? I think you are rather misinformed, there,
>> and could simply have asked Ben who knows what it is: it is a test
>> instance we (The Amarok Team) need so we can test the Ampache service
>> which is part of Amarok.
>
> I talked with Ben before sending this email.
>
> Yes, he mentioned he thought it was a test instance, he also said the logs
> seem to show it is unused and as far as i understood it has multiple
> user/login accounts, which could mean it was an [unused] private service.
>
> Maybe i should have worded my email more as a "Can you confirm it's a private
> service ...".
>
>> AFAIK we are the only ones to use it, there
>> is no public access (so no worries about copyright issues with the
>> music), the music on it is not even up-to-date.
>
> Having music with unclear copyright may not worry you, it does worry me a lot,
> music companies don't seem to like it and I'm sure we both agree it wouldn't
> be cool if the KDE eV would get sued because of it.
>
>> So I really see no reason why you would shut it down as it a) doesn't
>> take much space and b) it is after all on the server Amarok donated to
>> KDE (including the rather big lump of money that came with it), and c)
>> we need an Ampache server so we can test something, I am rather
>> surprised you would want to shut it down...
>
> I don't want to shut it down, I am acting at a request of sysadmin that raised
> the issue of having files with unclear copyright in what seemed to be an
> unused service, so the easiest route was just shutting it down (or passing
> ownership to someone else).
>
>> Amarok is part of KDE, and  my understanding is that we can use the
>> KDE infrastructure to develop our software, and the Amapche server is
>> part of that.I would find it rather sad if the eV board suddenly
>> decides otherwise...
>
> If an Ampache instance is needed to test Amarok, sysadmin has no objections
> to us setting up a clean instance if need be, and loading a few
> creative commons files into it for testing purposes, but we should not risk
> ourselves to get sued for no reason.
>
> So please can developers confirm it is needed?

Any news on this?

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>>
>> Regards, Myriam
>

Thanks,
Ben