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ATTENTION LMMS USERS

I have come to inform you that Lmms, is being sold on E bay again, under a different name, "Digital Audio Workstation."

It seems a handful of Lmms users have spotted the E Bay Lmms scammers, on more than one occasion. But don't know how to report or deal with them.

Sketchman3, including myself and a few others, have spotted some on E Bay.

So hopefully a Lmms Developer or user(s), can tell everyone what to do. And how to "legally" etc.deal with those scammers.

The bidding for the "Fake" Digital Audio Workstation, ends in 5 days and 15 hrs.

There is a discussion on this same topic in:
Off-topic Chat: Are retail digital downloads of LMMS ligitimate?

And a warning one in, tutorials section: Attention Newbies: Download Lmms from Lmms Home page which I made to warn Lmms Newbies and Newcomers, of buying Lmms on E bay.

PS: Sorry for posting this here. But I posted it here, to alert everyone. Since alot of Lmms users visit the Generals Section often.

PS: My suggestion is to "Hit all those Scam Artists with a Giant Kamehameha Bomb!!"
It'll knock the Fruity Loops out of 'em!!

Sorry for the silly "DBZ" joke. Lol!

Hehe. You know, the LMMS devs should start tagging LMMS as 'Digital Audio Workstation" so people searching for that would find LMMS.

Technically if I recall, things can be resold under the terms of GPL. But they have to include all the original source data, readmes, etc. Which would in turn point back to LMMS. (In which case it makes it easy to call them on any shennanigans.)

However reselling stuff found under GPL is a kind of a gimpy thing to do though, unless it's a legitimate fork or includes a lot of new content not typically available with the regular version.

Of course if they fail to abide by the GPL, then the project authors here really should go after them for infringement.

Any lawyers out there among LMMS users? What are the chances of turning these people into a funding source (however minor) for LMMS devs? Is it worth the time and expense of litigation?

treefingers wrote:Any lawyers out there among LMMS users? What are the chances of turning these people into a funding source (however minor) for LMMS devs? Is it worth the time and expense of litigation?

Funding source? Ha! Ha! I see where you're going.
That may turn out handy for the Lmms Development team. Lol!

No Lawyers yet? Maybe we should "model and Rig" some, in Blender 3D. So they could deal with these Pirates! Lol!

Drat!! It seems they're at it again.

Let me download a new copy of Blender, so I can help deal with this mess! Lol!

Oh Crap! They're still selling Blender and under a different name too? The Nerve!!
Dang Pesky Varmins!!

treefingers wrote:Is it worth the time and expense of litigation?

No. That's why they're doing it.