Bug#469397: ITP: xbmc, boxee too?

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

Hi Andres,

I'm glad you are working to package xbmc. I have recently been looking at 
Boxee ( http://boxee.tv/ ) which is based on it. The Boxee people always 
point out that they are an "Open Source project", from what I read on the 
wikipedia page

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee

a lot of it is GPL but they also have some closed source code as well 
(mainly the library for communicating with their value add services).

As part of packaging xbmc will you also consider packaging the DFSG-free 
parts of boxee? I guess they already have an apt repo for Ubuntu

http://apt.boxee.tv/

and some people have managed to get those debs working on lenny/sid

http://forums.boxee.net/showthread.php?t=4197
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=21147

I have not looked at them yet myself.

I guess one thing that will determine this is how close to xbmc development 
boxee stays, and how quickly they will incorporate the good changes that 
are happening to make xbmc use system libs and more FHS sane.

Please let me know if you want someone to test or review packages.

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org