Possible GPL violation: AVConverter

[curriegrad2004]

This is audacity , they didn't even bother to change the user interface.

Did anyone attempt to disassemble the binaries yet?

On 2/10/08, Alphax <alphax.new at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mobile Ringtone Converter (from
> http://www.avconverter.com/mrconverter.html) is a clone of Audacity and
> includes LAME 3.93 (an LGPL library, but it's statically linked etc.) -
> from their EULA:
>
> > All title and copyrights in and to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT (including
> > but not limited to any images, photographs, animations, video, audio,
> > music, and text incorporated into the SOFTWARE PRODUCT), the
> > accompanying printed materials, and any copies of the SOFTWARE
> > PRODUCT are owned by AVCONVERTER or its suppliers. The SOFTWARE
> > PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws and international treaty
> > provisions. Therefore, you must treat the SOFTWARE PRODUCT like any
> > other copyrighted material.
>
> It appears that they are a serial offender and while it has been noted
> on various shareware download sites (by multiple users) that they appear
> to be using Audacity, I found no past record of any action being taken.
>
>