Strawberry Music Player (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Looking for a place to find the Windows version of this without paying $20 for a single version or $5/month for regular updates

EDIT: which one of you mad lads did this? https://codeberg.org/WetOtter44/StrawberryMusicPlayer

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[-] pablodaniel@lemmings.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required."

Really scummy on their part.

You should be able to build from source yourself to get a Windows version, although the process looks like a pain in the ass.

Curse whoever floated the idea to lock releases behind paywalls. We should not encourage this behavior.

Do not give them your money.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Really scummy on their part.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think that's true, correct me if I am wrong though. There are still other requirements you have to follow for the GPL3 license if you wanted to distribute it legally.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it's public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.

I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.

And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.

These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they'd provide me their source.

Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it's users, especially not on distribution.