Re: [Audacity-devel] Theft

[Andreas M. <And...@gm...>]

Johnny Levai wrote:
> Dear developers,
> What if someone grabs your code, re badges it to something like Mobile 
> Ringtone Converter and sells it for $25.98, without sharing source code?
> I found it here: 
> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Convertors/Mobile-Ringtone-Converter.shtml
>
> Waiting for your response,
> Johnny
>   
That's hefty! Probably some of us should look at
<http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violation.html>
more closely. I tried to find out the postal address of the company, but 
didn't succeed.
Can some others try, please?

The registrant of the site has seems to have an address in Niger.
I don't know about the copyright laws of Niger.

This is what www.united-domains.de wrote:

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   Domain Name: AVCONVERTER.COM
   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
   Name Server: NS2.POWWEB.COM
   Name Server: NS3.POWWEB.COM
   Status: clientRenewProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Updated Date: 19-apr-2007
   Creation Date: 21-nov-2004
   Expiration Date: 21-nov-2008


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Registrant:
   David S.
   BJ
   BJ, Yukon Territory 10000
   Niger

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: AVCONVERTER.COM
      Created on: 21-Nov-04
      Expires on: 21-Nov-08
      Last Updated on: 19-Apr-07

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