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Stories and comments across the archive that link to virtualdub.org.

Stories · 2

  1. VirtualDub Author Stymied by Trademark Troll

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the did-he-also-register-'lynch-mob'? dept. · 102 comments
    trifish writes "The author of VirtualDub wrote on his blog that 'someone has registered "VirtualDub" as a "word mark" in Germany as of June 6, 2006 and is now sending out notices to people in that country demanding money for so much as mentioning the program and linking to the SourceForge download from their website.' Well, I confess that only now I fully understand why Linux, Mozilla, TrueCrypt, and other open source projects register their names as trademarks."

  2. First Legal Test of the GPL

    Gnu · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the its-only-a-matter-of-time dept. · 524 comments
    Trepidity writes "In stark contrast to the plethora of false alarms recently, there's a pretty clear-cut case that Vidomi, a DVD ripping product by SloMedia, is composed of a great deal of code from VirtuaDub, a GPLd product. As SloMedia have refused all requests to either release their source or stop using the code, the developer is planning to file suit with the aid of the Free Software Foundation, in what could be the first legal test of the GPL's enforceability."