On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Rob wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:54, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > Have you seen what's happening to the audacity project? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2572777204&; > >category=15199 > > It's got to the point where they need legal help. The guy is > > making a few false statements like he has community support > > and is giving money back to the developers. > > I dunno, it's a tricky thing. If the guy were selling Audacity > CD's labeled as such on ebay, people would be calling for him to > be sued over trademark violations. The guy sells it under a > different name and people call for him to be sued under some Actually no, he 100% entitled to sell CD of Audacity labled as such as long as he provides the source code. I think the GPL makes that very clear. But it doesn't seem like a good business plan to sell a CD of something that can be downloaded even on a modem in a reasonable amount of time. -lee
