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As bandnet promotes the use of creativecommons licenses, I'd be interested in the license of Bandnet itself.

Do you use a free license yourself?

I suppose by 'free 'license' you're asking if the project is open source.

At the moment not completely, main reason being that some bits are messy, hacked together, etc. I'll give away bits of the code on request or direct people to where they can get the code if its from another project, such as the getID3 stuff.

To be honest I haven't really thought of the license to the project itself. I'll have to think about that one when I have time/motivation.

If you use code from getID3, then bandnet should most likely be made GPL, too (which  btw. is the best of the free licenses out there )

http://getid3.sourceforge.net/source/license.txt

getID3 is GPL, so any project which incorporates its code needs to be GPL, too (exception being when its code is kept completely seperated and never used directly, afaik).

But you should really check into the licenses of the parts you use. Could get quite nasty if some parts can't be used together...

As soon as Bandnet is officially GPL-licensed, I'd like to try to integrate Bandnet and Phex, so that Bandnet can be used as source for multi-file downloads (and so that we can advertise bandnet as content-partner to Phex, if that's OK with you).

Besides: I'd love to help you getting the licensing done, since free licenses are something very important to me (in short, I think they are the future of programs, art and information).

Does the GPL ask that modifications to the code be sent back to the original author? I think that'd be helpful if any improvements came back to the original code.

The problem I have at the moment is that work is taking much of my time so progress, if any, is rather slow... Would you mind if I ship the code to you to have a look at and add the license to once?

It doesn't require it, but it's called good style

The GPL just requires, that the original author can get the sources after changes, so while the changes need not be sent back, the original author can always have a look at the changed code and diff both versions.

I can check the licenses (and warn you of conflicts if tehre shoudl be some). Will take some time, though, because I have the same problem (but because we've just moved and need to finish furniture, etc. )

How'd you like to ship the code?