4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
6:18 p.m.
Right, he's both re-branding and only selling binaries, so that's pretty
bad, the only thing that would make it worse is if he tried to sell
audacity for like $250 (like soundforge).
I don't think he'll be successful, because most windows users are getting
most of the sonic foundry software by jacking it for free from kazaa.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Benjamin Flaming wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:33 pm, Brian Redfern
wrote:
I don't know, if you're selling people
audacity on cdrom, as long as you
include the source I wouldn't think its illegal, I don't know why anyone
would buy it on cd, but notice that he didn't get any bids, and now that
its relisted, there's still no bids.
I think the concern is with the fact that he's not selling "Audacity"
-
he's selling "Luxuriousity Sound Editor". I took a look at the web site:
http://www.luxuriousity.com/
It's pretty disgusting - he also sells Luxuriousity Office (OpenOffice),
Luxuriousity Photo (Gimp), and a number of other re-branded products. If he
was selling unmodified copies, I don't think there would be a legal issue,
and I don't think developers would be as strongly offended. Since he is
*presumably* distributing modified versions of the program (application title
changed) without making his modified version available for download, he
*might* be in violation of the GPL.
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