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27th August 2008, 13:08 | #402 | Link | |
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If I cannot find any suitable tools, what kind of licence can I declare? Freeware? Generic open source? Let me know because I'm not an expert in that matter... Bye P.S. Sė sono italiano |
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27th August 2008, 13:58 | #403 | Link |
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Licence issue...
Concerning BatchMux, I confirm the tool is completely free and freely redistributable as an executable code without any problem. If you want, you can also freely patch, modify or hacker its executable code without any complaint from the side to the author (me).
However it is not possible to distribute its source code, since most part of its content is deeply related to the knowledge and the DVD information which is taken from the web site of MPUCoder, whose access is restricted and protected by an explicit non disclosure agreement. This situation (free availability and possibility of redistribution of the executable, but unavailability of the source code) holds also for MuxMan and HCEnc, making these programs incompatible with the terms of the GNU GPL licence. If you want to keep the GPL licence for AVStoDVD, I recommend to remove these programs from the installation and/or distribution packages of AVDtoDVD, and to give just instructions/links about where to download or to look for them. Other programs (DVD-RB, for instance) are distributed outside the domain of GNU-GPL. In this case there is the freedom of redistributing other close-source programs and packages, and you also may choose to include or not the source code in the distridution... Cheers, SD |
27th August 2008, 19:10 | #404 | Link |
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I for one have never used the burning facility from within AVStoDVD, I have ImgBurn installed independently, so maybe you could add it to the 'software requirements' list, possibly also any other software there may be issues with, as already stated by Sir Didymus. This is too good a project to be halted by 'Red Tape'. On a different note I would be more than happy to make a donation to AVStoDVD but as I don't use credit cards(Past problems) this is difficult, if anyone has a suggestion re this please reply. Keep up the outstanding work MrC.
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28th August 2008, 07:43 | #405 | Link |
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@SD, wg
thanks for the contributions on this delicate matter. My opinion is that if I cannot select a alternative and appropriate Open Source domain (there are really a lot of them), I will move away from SourceForge and continue to distribute AVStoDVD as freeware on VideoHelp/GooglePages. In its early days, AVStoDVD was not equipped with all external software needed. Users had to select them in a Settings Tab. The very big "problem" is that, luckily, those software are often updated and, just for example, HCenc 0.86 may be not compatible with AVStoDVD 7.1.9. I can guarantee (99%) that AVStoDVD is fully compatible with the sw releases shipped with it, not newer or older. I thought about another possible solution: split AVStoDVD into 2 packages: the first one (GPL and hosted by SourceForge) with only "raw" AVStoDVD, the second one (hosted by GooglePages) containing the collection of required external sw. But I think it would be a little bit messy and confused.... Any ideas and suggestion is welcome. Bye |
30th August 2008, 22:22 | #406 | Link |
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googlepages will shut down in December, being replaced by googlesites.
There are so many free hosting places to distribute AVS2DVD, ripbot264 has been using mediafire instead of sourceforge. Theres also services that will distribute avs2dvd for you through several free hosting sites and give back the links for all of them. for example: http://www.uploadjockey.com test link: http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/9611481/test.zip Last edited by ricardo.santos; 30th August 2008 at 22:30. |
31st August 2008, 01:24 | #407 | Link |
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Well, sorry (or not?) to start this "flame"... I hope it will not cause any loosing.
Open Source softwares are really a cultural treasure. BTW nowdays (in the communication era) we "live" in a software bazaar. PD, FreeWare, ShareWare, Open Source (SS too !), Closed Source, EULA, own... a license jungle ! I believe that open source developers should choose an appropriate license for their packages (and I would also consider Patents and Royalties for this kind of applications... in the second stage). GPL is a great freedom license, but you must reverse your rights so keep it in mind; and trust me, SourceForge is THE right place for you/your project (rapids**-like links tastes a bit of warez to me). So i believe that you simply need an alternative (the same approach that borned the open source philosophy - @ 12:50th minute) and, fortunally, there are tons of ! As suggested, you could use GPL-compatible burning tools or, even better, you could start some kind of collaboration with other projects to obtain what you need. Or implement an online update tool (WGET ?) that retrieves the "GPL-incompatible pack" from a PPF-CDN service. Hope that helps ! Marco Ravich
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31st August 2008, 09:34 | #408 | Link |
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@ricardo.santos
Thanks for the info about uploading sites. I think they can be very useful when you have to share one "standalone" file. But they are not suitable when trying to distribute a full software, including News, Tutorials, Downloads and, maybe, Forums. Right now, SourceForge has all those features and GooglePages (I hope GoogleSites too) has some of them. @PatchWorKs Unfortunately the licence problem is not limited to ImgBurn. There are other 2 "structural" tools, HCenc and MuxMan, not having a OS license. I hope your wide knowledge about OS matter will help suggesting me if a suitable OS license exists. I mean: a license which allows me to keep freeware sw inside AVStoDVD installer package. Thanks in advance. Btw, I wonder how a well known and more famous all-in-one tool like DVDFlick, which includes ImgBurn in its package, has a GPL license and is hosted by SourceForge... another "bad guy"? Bye |
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The suggestion is to deeply digg SF.net for poject like yours and "legally stole" others' methods (that's the beauty of open source !). Even better (to me) is to adopt an universal tool as a backend (MediaCoder of course) that provides you the tools you need. You don't need to change the license ('cause the problem is not your one, but the others' ones) you need to change tools your program uses.
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1st September 2008, 08:24 | #411 | Link | |
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Joking apart, I am working on it. I will send you (email?) a 2.1.1 Alpha "gizzin build" as soon as possible. Bye |
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1st September 2008, 16:04 | #412 | Link |
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Following the link gizzin (and all others guys interested in) can find a very preliminary 2.1.1 release.
Download the 7z file and unpack the files (exe and history) into AVStoDVD folder. Enjoy minimum bitrate customization! Bye Last edited by MrC; 2nd September 2008 at 08:56. Reason: Download moved to AVStoDVD Homepage |
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Arh, i thought it was something that could be tweaked in the settings file as a quick fix for now
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2nd September 2008, 00:53 | #417 | Link |
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I know of 3 other projects(And there may be more) that use most, if not all of the software bundled with AVStoDVD, yet when I check their forums(And they are certainly not hard to find) not a word from 'Patchworks' re rights issues. What gives?
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2nd September 2008, 08:23 | #419 | Link | |
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@PatchWorKs:
I understand the motives for your posting but in general I think this is counterproductive. Searching for another burning / ISO tool just to fullfil GPL requirements is a waste of time IMO. Being a tool developer myself I would rather choose - move away from sourceforge - release my tool source under any license but not GPL Investing time in anything else doesnīt help the tool and hence doesnīt help the users. The same thing goes for building two different packages (GPL / Non-GPL) or developing a downloader for "Non GPL" tools. Quote:
there without restrictions as long as itīs free and uses free tools. Rapidshare, Megaupload and all the other "Webspaces" have not more to do with warez as torrent, e-mule, etc. When you want to distribute bigger files to a lot of people they are simply an easy way without additional costs for the distributor. Please donīt take this personal...itīs just my point of view ! @MrC: If any problems arise on how you package AVS2DVD you simply should do what I discribed above: Switch to another license and (if neccessary) look out for a new hosting site. Users are flexible... Anything else is a waste of your valuable time which could be better invested in enhancing AVS2DVD. Cheers, D$ |
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2nd September 2008, 08:26 | #420 | Link |
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Release 2.1.1 Alpha gizzin build @rendez2k about Panasonic issue: it is not so easy. BatchMux creates the mxp file for MuxMan and then runs it immediately. There is no way to catch the mxp file at runtime, modify it and then launch MuxMan. But, manually, you can do it: 1. Go to 'Settings'/'Misc' and toggle off 'Delete temporary process files' and 'Delete AVStoDVD working files' 2. Run your project 3. When finished go to AVStoDVD temp files folder and edit the mxp file 4. Open MuxMan and load the mxp. Run MuxMan. 5. (Optional) Clean up temp files folder and output folder Bye Last edited by MrC; 2nd September 2008 at 08:55. |
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