Yeah, in this case notifying Ebay is appropriate because he's re-branding and only distributing binaries, so he's breaking audcity's GPL On 4 Dec 2003, Jan Depner wrote: > Dave, > > This is a bit shady but, as long as the guy is giving out the source > code with attached GPL/LGPL licensing verbiage, it's legal. If he's not > giving out source code he is in violation of the license/copyright. I'm > sure that EBay, if notified, will take him off if he's violating > copyright. They don't want to be anywhere near a copyright infringement > case. > > Jan > > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:08, Dave Phillips wrote: > > 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 checked this out too, and it is disturbing. It's also, as Patrick > > suggested, an example of a likely scenario in the near future as Linux > > audio apps become increasingly sophiticated and usable under more > > professional conditions. It's true that there's little that can be done > > to avoid this scenario, but I believe that community opprobrium (i.e. > > verbal torches and pitchforks) can do some good in such a case. Alas, > > eBay doesn't make it easy for a non-member to add a comment to a sale item. > > > > I'm thinking some not very nice thoughts about Luminousity right now... > > > > Best, > > > > == dp > > > > > > >
