I can't find the source for "Digital DJ Pro", can anyone else? If not, that's a violation of GPLv2, no?
-Scott On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:20 -0500, Garth Dahlstrom wrote: > Hi Jus, > > > Our relationship with "Music Oasis/Freeze.com" is not a friendly one, > we have threatened them in the past for trademark violation. > > > The levers of control Mixxx has over it's IP are: > * Trademark - the "Mixxx" brand and representations > > > * Copyright - published works: code, artwork, documentation, > website, etc > > > For trademark, its pretty simple, they can't use our name "Mixxx" or > represent themselves as us in a manner that creates confusion in the > marketplace. We have taken steps to defend our trademark by > threatening Music Oasis & co when they used our name and also claimed > they had trademark over it on their site in the past (they put "Mixxx > Digital DJ Pro" is TM of Music Oasis on the bottom of their webpage). > They have since removed all references to "Mixxx". > > > With respect to copyright the situation is a bit more complicated: > * Code: this is covered by the GPLv2, which means anyone can create > and distribute binaries provided the source code and derived source > code (for changes made) are available to the public to rebuild and > pass along under the terms of the GPLv2. (Provided they do not > violate our other copyrighted materials or our trademark they are > allowed to do this.) > > > * Artwork and other copyrighted works: These are not licensed > explicitly under the GPL, and so we can enforce copyright violations > on these as we have made no grant of redistribution rights to > anyone... (This is why they have re-skinned / rebranded their copy) > > > The situation with Art is one of the primary motivations of why we'd > want new skins to adopt a CC license (to prevent ripping off Mixxx) > with an assignment of copyright to Mixxx so Mixxx can take action to > stop groups like Music Oasis from ripping off the skins. > > > I personally have no problem with people forking GPL code for profit, > but I think there is a certain etiquette to doing it on good terms. > I'm not saying one need ask for permission, but it's not nice to > pollute the original groups trademark/market and try to pass of the > work as entirely your own when all you did was change some artwork. > Given that they have made pretty much no attempt to be on good terms > with us or make even a token contribution back to the Mixxx community > from which they profit, I would be happy to see Mixxx initiate full > fledge litigation against them if they were found to be in violation > of the GPL (though I can't speak on behalf of Mixxx as a whole in this > respect). > > > Cheers, > > > -G > > > P.S. typed this in a bit of a hurry, so @mixxx.org folks feel free to > add/correct if I missed on anything... > > > > > On 2010-03-03, at 7:59 AM, jus wrote: > > > Hello, > > i was curious why there are more&more new users looking for help in > > the forum referring to Mixxx as "Digital DJ pro" or "DJ Pro". > > > > > > A quick search brings > > up http://www.freeze.com/download/Audio/Digital-DJ-Pro and > > http://www.music-oasis.com/download/Audio/Digital-DJ-Pro . > > > > > > They only changed the "About" splashscreen & the default skin to an > > own crappy one. > > > > > > Windows users are tricked into downloading a "download manager" > > which pulls the rebranded Mixxx 1.7.0 to the users computer. > > The downloader drops additional payloads such as browser toolbars, > > changes that browser startpage and set cookies that look like > > measurement for a kind of revenue sharing program. > > > > > > EXAMPLE: > > ProductSessionId=ab106995-89bf-4c79-a0a9-d16f367893413077&VersionId=-1&Tracking=0&SessionTime=1/3/2010 > > 5:22:38 > > AM&CampaignID=127849&ShortName=digitaldj&LeadmanSessionId=14c97e18-8069-41e5-9921-106995&PingRestrictionsRecorded=1&Membership=0. > > > > > > If the download stats on freeze.com are correct over 400000 ppl > > downloaded already... > > > > > > > > > > Is it legal under the GPL to reuse Mixxx in that manner? > > > > > > > > > > jus > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. 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