http://carltonbale.com/omnifi-gpl-software-petition My personal take on tech Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:59:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://carltonbale.com/omnifi-gpl-software-petition/comment-page-1#comment-522 Carlton Bale’s Blog » Blog Archive » Omniquiti Lathe - another GPL violator Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:40:53 +0000 http://www.carltonbale.com/blog2/?p=46#comment-522 [...] I’ve been looking for easy-to-use software to convert DVDs to XVID files to play on my Treo 650 (using the excellent The Core Pocket Media Player).  I was about to purchase Lathe from Omniquiti when I found out that it is based on Pocket Divx Encoder, which uses GLP (link to license).  In the Lathe forums, those who have purchased Lathe report that also states in the help file that it is distributed under GPL.  Unfortunately, according to the thread, they have basically refused to release the codes by ignoring all requests.  This is similar to the tactic taken by Simple Devices, as I reported in a previous blog entry. [...] [...] I’ve been looking for easy-to-use software to convert DVDs to XVID files to play on my Treo 650 (using the excellent The Core Pocket Media Player).  I was about to purchase Lathe from Omniquiti when I found out that it is based on Pocket Divx Encoder, which uses GLP (link to license).  In the Lathe forums, those who have purchased Lathe report that also states in the help file that it is distributed under GPL.  Unfortunately, according to the thread, they have basically refused to release the codes by ignoring all requests.  This is similar to the tactic taken by Simple Devices, as I reported in a previous blog entry. [...]

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