Re: [Audacity-devel] avconverter.com

[David R. S. <dav...@sh...>]

Hi Samuel,

I'm not involved with Audacity licensing issues (making decisions about 
licensing Audacity).

I only briefly scanned the whois report on avconverter, so didn't catch 
the reference to Yulon/Yukon or Niger.

I haven't checked - is there a page on the wiki or somewhere else for 
making ring tones with Audacity? With appropriate search-engine-optimizing 
words for audacity, free, ring tones, etc.? I don't own a cellphone so 
this has not been something I have paid particular attention to.

David


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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Samuel Humphreys wrote:

> sorry I wasnt very clear :)
>
> I meant the whois info reports that the geographical location of the owner
> of avconverter.com is the "yukon territory, Niger", I know there is a yukon
> territory in Canada, but couldnt find a "Niger" in the Canadian Yukon
> Territories...I figured there maybe a Yukon territory in Nigeria....
>
> Legality wise I think its clearly illegal. Searching the dev mailing list
> for previous posts on 'avconverter.com' the consensus seemed to be that it
> is in clear breach of the GPL. Gale also summarised to that effect. For
> avconverter.com to legalise their offering they should clearly show a link
> to download the source code on the site and include the GPL license. Judging
> from what modifications he has made he has altered the main source code and
> hasnt just added libraries. The guy also claims sole authorship!
>
> Dominic stated that it wasnt worth getting into a fight about it, the last
> time it was brought up. I am suggesting attributing copyright to the 'free
> software foundation' (whilst retaining authorship attribution) and then
> informing the free software foundation of the breach in their copyright.
> Apparently they are more likely to go after the infringers. If the
> avconverter.com registration is in Africa, then its probably not worth
> doing....but if it was in Canada......
>
>