Terms of Use for Open Source

[Felipe]

Hello,

I'm interested in developing a plugin for an application that's Open
Source. Your terms of use look pretty good, except for this:

4.1 All calls to the Songkick API must reference the API Key issued to
you as an approved licensee. You will not share the API Key and any
other authentication details with any third party.

The application I'm trying to develop for is Banshee (www.banshee.fm)
It's the new default audio player for Ubuntu Linux, and with such a
growing community, I thought that having Songkick integrated by
default would be neat.

Is there a way we can get an exception, or arrange a Terms of Use for
this project or the Open Source community in general?

[Sabrina Leandro]

Hi Felipe,

Unfortunately, for open source applications you have no choice but to
expose the API key. There are other open source projects that had the
same problem using our API.

In those cases, we asked the project to add a comment above the API
key line that says something like:
"If you'd like to use Songkick's API please request your own API key
from http://developer.songkick.com".

If you ever feel that someone might be misusing your api key, let me
know and we can issue a new one. We know security by obfuscation is
not security, but for now, there's no way around it.

thanks

--
Sabrina Leandro
http://www.songkick.com/users/saleandro