Must be logged in to tape??

[Squid]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/

I actually have one of those. I was a little disappointed when I hooked it up. It is a serially controlled tape deck ( which is cool ) but it just feeds the sound to the line-in of your soundcard. I thought it might have an onboard DSP and plug into a USB port, putting out mp3's directly instead of relying on the soundcard to encode it.

[jd142]

Hmm... are you sure that isn't in violation of the license agreement?

Could you be more specific about license violations?

[sub]

Ok, I have the problem narrowed down. It's something with the version that I'm running. I went to an old test machine that was running the .99 release and ran script. Everything worked fine. Re-ran the script on the production machine and it didn't record. I had to restart the recording service(even though it said it was running and there were no errors) and then it started recording. The production machine is only running 1.0.16, so I need to see if this problem is solved by upgrading to the latest version.

I can't use the web interface because I'm using this for a project at our school and I have to have some logic that authenticates the user and then only authorizes the user to request some specific tapings. Only enrolled students can request a taping and then only for the classes they are in.

Could you be more specific about license violations?

As per the license agreement shown during installation, GB-PVR is only to be used for personal use. This use doesnt really fall under that criteria.

I'm not trying to be a prick, but these are rules I have to impose so that I'm not in violation of commercial agreements I have in place.

[jd142]

As per the license agreement shown during installation, GB-PVR is only to be used for personal use. This use doesnt really fall under that criteria.

I'm not trying to be a prick, but these are rules I have to impose so that I'm not in violation of commercial agreements I have in place.

Nah, you aren't being a prick at all. We are public, non-commercial educational institution. We read the following in the license:

"THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR GB-PVR ("LICENSE AGREEMENT") IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY AS ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE)"

"You agree that the GB-PVR software will not be used for commercial purposes with full written permission. Any such forbidden use shall immediately terminate your license to the software. "

So we took the first part to mean that the agreement could be between "YOU[ meaning me ] (EITHER ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY AS ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE)" and Menten Holdings to mean that one person could enter into the agreement on behalf on an entity. In this case the entity is a non-commercial public institution. Since we aren't using it for any commercial purpose, since we are a state funded non-profit educational institution, we assumed we fit the second phrase. Most free non-opensource software makes an exception for non-profit and educational use. We assumed that since we were in all other ways fully compliant with the license, we were ok.

Our university's lawyers require us to submit all licenses agreements through them to make sure that we aren't binding the University to some outrageous license and to make sure that we aren't violating any licenses. They thought we were ok and that we fit that wording.

It could very well be that our use fits the absolute legal interpretation. Sometimes there is boilerplate text in these licenses and unless you wrote the whole thing yourself, you may not have noticed that phrasing or thought it could be interpreted that way. But if we are violating the intent or spirit of the license then we need to work something out. Please feel free to send me a private message or email me. We do not want to be in violation and will either stop using the program as soon as possible or work with you to bring us into compliance.

[sub]

Also from the license:

GRANT OF LICENSE: Subject to the following terms, devnz.com ("MENTEN HOLDINGS LTD") hereby grants you a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable license to install and to use the GB-PVR software ("Software") for personal, non-commercial use. You may copy the Software for back-up or archival purposes.

What you're describing certainly doesnt sound like 'personal, non-commercial use' to me. At the very least it violates the spirit of the license.

If you want to discuss this any further, send me a PM.