[linux-audio-user] License free Linux ??

[lee at fallingforward.net]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rob wrote:

> On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:54, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > Have you seen what's happening to the audacity project?
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2572777204&
> >category=15199
> > It's got to the point where they need legal help. The guy is
> > making a few false statements like he has community support
> > and is giving money back to the developers.
>
> I dunno, it's a tricky thing.  If the guy were selling Audacity
> CD's labeled as such on ebay, people would be calling for him to
> be sued over trademark violations.  The guy sells it under a
> different name and people call for him to be sued under some

Actually no, he 100% entitled to sell CD of Audacity labled as such as
long as he provides the source code. I think the GPL makes that very
clear. But it doesn't seem like a good business plan to sell a CD of
something that can be downloaded even on a modem in a reasonable amount of
time.

-lee