I'm not able to install the software as I stopped running Windows 2 years ago 
(I also suspect it puts some kind of crapware loader on your machine, so please 
exercise caution -- use a VM you don't care about or something), but if you 
can't find the the source, a link to the source or an offer to provide the 
source...  Feel free to contact them and ask them as an "end-user entitled to 
the source" where it's at.

According to Trust-E, their contact info for "Install IQ" installer is:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 320-257-7500 


On 2010-03-03, at 10:52 PM, Scott wrote:

> 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
>>> 
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