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  1. Re:Difference by Istealmymusic · · Score: 3, Informative · on Slashback: Picnic, Neonapster, Microsoft
    Neonapster is not a rippoff of cdex.

    Correct. NeoNapster ripped off CDex to create NeoAudio. NeoNapster is not only a Gnutella servant, its also the collective name of the people who make it. Thats why you can download NeoAudio from NeoNapster.com.

  2. a slip perhaps? by zozzi · · Score: 1 · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex
    Have you looked at the titles in the screenshot?

    Titles like:

    "The pleasure and the greed",

    "Mistake",

    "Undersold",

    "Knee deep (in what I ask...?)",

    "No fault"

    and best of all

    "All our days are numbered"! :-)

  3. Ready... ATTACK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    Slashdot them.

  4. Re:A little murky here by Jeremiah+Blatz · · Score: 1 · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    Not that at the end of the NeoAudio license, they didn't even remove the commentary about how to claim copyright and how you should get your employer's signature. I suspect that they didn't even read the whole thing, and this this is a case of copyright infringement due to ignorance/stupidity, instead of malice. Still highly illegal, tho.

  5. They don't look all that similar :-) by e_n_d_o · · Score: 2 · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    CDEX Screenshot

    NeoAudio Screenshot

  6. CDex Acknowledged by semaj · · Score: 2, Informative · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    It's still not very nice, but at the bottom of "NeoAudio.rtf" in the source (available from their site) it says:

    Acknowledgements
    Based on CDex.

    I guess this and the GPL licence means they might technically be doing nothing wrong.

  7. Screen shots of each.. by Kakarat · · Score: 1 · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex
    Here are the screen shots of both from each of their websites:
    NeoAudio
    CDex

  8. and we should care because? by DemiKnute · · Score: 5, Informative · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    The problem is not so much that their taking someone's GPL'd program and redistributing it under a new name, but that they are removing the original author's (Albert L Faber) copyright notices. The author's copyright of the program must be maintained in order for the GPL to be effective, otherwise people (like these) could completely jack the code and release it under any liscense they want.

    But we should consider ourselves lucky that they're releasing it under the GPL and the source code is still available at the bottom of this page.

  9. Before anybody starts screaming "GPL violation" by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 3, Redundant · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex
    the source code for both NeoNapster and NeoAudio are posted on their download page, and both programs are licensed under the GPL. Even if this is ethically wrong, legally it's fine.

    That said, it's still a nasty rip-off, and I hope people use CDex (a very fine piece of software, incidentally) instead.

  10. Before anybody starts screaming "GPL violation" by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 3, Redundant · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex
    the source code for both NeoNapster and NeoAudio are posted on their download page, and both programs are licensed under the GPL. Even if this is ethically wrong, legally it's fine.

    That said, it's still a nasty rip-off, and I hope people use CDex (a very fine piece of software, incidentally) instead.

  11. Ummmm So what? by Spoons · · Score: 4, Informative · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    What's the big deal here? They aren't in violation of the GPL. They have the source available for download. Why is this news again?

  12. Give them soem credit. by howardjp · · Score: 2, Redundant · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    They at least made the source available.

  13. Wait, there's more . . . by SimplyCosmic · · Score: 4, Funny · on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex

    Not only does this company's website point to NeoAudio, which uses CDEx code, but NeoNapster, which is straight out of any of the Gnutella codebases, and is Yet Another Gnutella Client, but with spyware added.

    I can't wait for their upcoming release: NeoLinux with the NeoGNOME desktop environment.