[needs-packaging] GoalBit

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[needs-packaging] GoalBit
Goalbit Media Player is the open-source software that can connect to and play Goalbit channels. This player is based on the VLC media player, an open-source project with a very successful career and millions of downloads. It is available for downloading from http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/downloads.html , where there are links to the Windows executable and its source code. The Goalbit Project is always concerned in the multi-platform property of the player, so that is why the source code compiles for Linux, Windows and Mac users, and nobody has to feel excluded ;)

The Goalbit Project is responsible for its birth and development through academic funds dedicated to the investigations of P2P networks. It is in constant development and always trying to incorporate useful and successful innovations out there!

Among the variety of characteristis The Goalbit Team is proud of, the main characteristics of the Goalbit player are:
# Open-source software, under GPL license.
# Multi-plataform (Linux, Windows, Mac).
# Does what it says it does. That means, there are no announced funcionalities that are not implemented, and it does not mean that it works under any conditions!
# It's easy to try a P2P broadcast for yourself, and even easier to tune its configuration to your needs!
# Supports all the codecs supported by VLC (that is because one of the major concerns is to have the latest version of VLC incorporated!).

URL: http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/goalbit/ http://goalbit-solutions.com/
License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Notes: Latest Beta version is 0.6.1 with Kademlia support, active Developers since 2008

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

Their record keeping is terrible. I went to look at packaging this. Almost none of the files they added have any headers/copyright at all on them and the few that do are odd and incomplete. Also there's no decent list of those involved in writing the code nor their copyright assigns.

[Jlopez (goalbit)]

Hi guys,

I am part of the GoalBit developer team. We can add the copyright headers today.

We are very interested in a package for ubuntu.

We usually develop in debian and ubuntu, but we do not have experience with packaging.

(GoalBit packaging is as hard as VLC player packaging)

[Jlopez (goalbit)]

The GPL headers are added to the trunk version. Next releases will have it.

[pixolex (pixolex)]

There's not a single good soul out there who have the skills and the time to package this software to the regular ubuntu users like me?

Pleeeeeeeeease :(

[Johan Kröckel (jnkl)]

Would be great...