Upgrade from Flutter Sound 9.x to Taudio 10.0

It is really simple to upgrade from Flutter Sound 9.x to Taudio 10.0. It will only takes you five minutes, Taudio is 100% compatible with Flutter Sound because Taudio is actually just a fork of Flutter Sound 9.27.0.

But if you do that, please pay a special attention to the License : Taudio is released under GPL-3 (The GNU Public License) and this license has a very strong copyleft clause. If your App depends on Taudio it must be released under the GPL License too.

To upgrade to Taudio just do those four little things:

1. Approve the GPL license

This is the first step. Your software must be GPL compliant. You must approve it.

But what is this famous GPL License ?

You can read all the legally lines if you want. But there are two main things that is important to understand :

• If your App is dependant of Taudio, you must publish the sources of your software somewhere. Probably on internet.

• If your App is dependant of Taudio, your App must be published under the GPL License too.

Why is this License so good ?

Because you are perhaps a professional developer. I am a professional developer. If someone like me works freely for some companies it would not be fair for you. Why will your boss pay you, if other people works for free for them? Companies may use GPL software. But they have to give something in exchange.

2. Modify your pubspec.yaml

dependencies:
  taudio: ^10.0.0

3. Modify your Dart import statement

  import 'package:taudio/taudio.dart';

4. Reload your dependencies

flutter clean
flutter pub get

The Github repo

The Taudio repo is now Github Taudio and not anymore Github Flutter Sound. Please fill your Taudio issues there.

That’s it !

Hopefully, your App continue to work as before.