[paranoia] Yet another cdparanoia derivative work; this one closed-source?

[Ned Konz]

Hi Monty,

Thanks for cdparanoia.

I just found what appears to be a derivative work, but it's not labeled as 
such, nor is the source available. It's the Beam-it Linux client, which is a 
program from MP3.COM that is used to identify one's CD's to their service so 
you can access the CD's on-line.
 
The ID from the program:

Beam-it Linux client (Version 1.1)
Copyright MP3.COM, Inc. 1999, 2000

In fact, I found your email address doing a "strings":

This drive will probably break cdparanoia; please send
email to paranoia at xiph.org

More strings:

Cdparanoia could not find a way to read audio from this drive.
Unable to open disc.
WARNING: You kernel does not have generic SCSI 'SG_BIG_BUFF'
         set, or it is set to a very small value.  Paranoia
         will only be able to perform single sector reads
         making it very unlikely Paranoia can work.
         To correct this problem, the SG_BIG_BUFF define
         must be set in /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/sg.h
         by placing, for example, the following line just
         before the last #endif:
         #define SG_BIG_BUFF 65536
         and then recompiling the kernel.
         Attempting to continue...
WARNING: The autosensed/selected sectors per read value is
         one sector, making it very unlikely Paranoia can
         work.
         Attempting to continue...

And so on.

You can get the program from MP3.COM.
API lib RPM:
http://click.mp3.com/c/o_beam5/u_filedownloads.mp3.com/filedownloads/beam-it/linux/libmsp-1.1-1.i386.rpm
Client RPM:
http://click.mp3.com/c/o_beam7/u_filedownloads/filedownloads/beam-it/linux/Beam-it-1.1-1.i386.rpm
API tarball:
http://click.mp3.com/c/o_beam9/u_filedownloads/filedownloads/beam-it/linux/libmsp-1.1.tar.gz
Client tarball:
http://click.mp3.com/c/o_beam11/u_filedownloads/filedownloads/beam-it/linux/Beam-it-1.1.tar.gz

It seems like (since cdparanoia is licensed under the GPL) they'd be 
obligated to distribute source, right? Or at least acknowledge your 
authorship...


-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com

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