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. > > |) > |)enji > >
