Comment 2 for bug 119412

I got the debian source package on the rarewares site.
It compiled, installed fine, and works well on amd64 kubuntu Feisty.
I suggest anyone with ape files get the source from rarewares and convert their apes to flac. Ape appears to be dead on Linux for now.

mac-port has severe license problems.
I suggest ubuntu (and even medibuntu) should not distribute.

Supermmx modified the SDK available on the monkey audio home page to create mac-port.
The SDK has a funky license that does not appear to be GPL compatible.
Supermmx wanted to put his version on sourceforge so he told sourceforge it was under the LGPL. But the lgpl and the funky license appear to incompatible.

Sourceforge has dropped the project. No indication why but I would guess it's due to license problems.

Here are some discussions about the license problem:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21858&st=0

The funky custom license is here:
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/license.html

I think gentoo and debian have already decided not to distribute.

It would be really nice if Matthew T. Ashland decided to release his SDK under a widely accepted license. (Such as BSD?)
Matt if you read this please chose one from the top of http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category . But it's your code and if you want to invent your own funky license that we can't make sense out of then it's up to you.

I don't think anybody can safely distribute this code until the SDK is released under a less funky license. And mac-port might be dead no matter what happens.

Regards,
Mike Sebastian