Slysoft Mencoder Violation

[MR]

You really should have read this:

http://www.slysoft.com/download/changes_clonedvdmobile.txt

It explains about the mencoder binary and how it is (supposedly) used.
They are still not distributing the source code as they should though,
just a link back to the mplayer homepage.

On 1/21/07, MR <mrintegrity at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you actualy pay for and get a copy of the software? They have
> interesting EULA, if it's a gpl violation then the EULA is invalid..
> you can distribute a copy to me and I will see if there is any gpl
> code in it. If there is not then I will delete it (I have no interest
> in such software)
>
> If you got it on CD did you check that there is no source code on the CD?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
> On 1/21/07, V. Meyers <gpl.violations.investigation at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Slysoft Clone DVD Mobile violates the GPL of Mencoder
> > http://www.slysoft.com/nl/clonedvd-mobile.html
> >
> > The product installs Mencoder and puts a graphical user interface in front
> > of it.
> > There's a brief credit of Mencoder in one of the help files, but that's all.
> >
> > - No GPL license is included
> > - No source code of Mencoder is made available
> > - Slysoft's gui modifications are not available as source code
> > - Email to Slysoft remains unanswered
> >
> > What it comes down to, is that Slysoft is charging $ 39 for other people's
> > work.
> > I would like to have the source code of their GUI so that we can all enjoy
> > this software for free.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to put more pressure on them? Because they were not
> > impressed by my email.
> >
> >
> >
>