Registration Questions

Hello, Subdownloader Windows version needs a license registration after a trial period of days, otherwise the program won't work.

The future upgrades are included for your licensed Windows version.
The registration is long forever, doesn't expire.

The Linux version of the application is of course open source and free.

Best Regards

Hello,
It seems like 3 years after our dispute about your project licensing and after the warning issued by the Launchpad Administration (https://answers.launchpad.net/subdownloader/+question/52299#comment-17), you still show a totally disrespectful attitude and behavior towards Open Source Community(OSC), offering your Windows shareware binaries from the servers of Launchpad (LP). Thus you directly violate (and you've been violating them for the last 3 years) LP Terms of use -> https://help.launchpad.net/Legal/ProjectLicensing

"- It must not require royalty payments or any other fee for redistribution or modification."
"- It must not discriminate against persons, groups or against fields of endeavour. The licence of software hosted by Launchpad can not discriminate against anyone or any group of users and cannot restrict users from using the software for a particular field of endeavor - a business for example."
"- It must not be distributed under a licence specific to one operating system. The rights attached to the software must not depend on the programme's being part of Ubuntu, for example."

So I think your users that are about to pay for your Windows binaries should pay close attention to your attitude towards them (stated clearly in the dispute mentioned above) and your attitude towards OSC and they should think twice before they do actually pay you.

The funny thing is that you expect and require your Win users to pay you, but at the same time you are obviously not inclined to follow the rules of Launchpad and pay for your project US$250/project/year to LP and thus using their servers for free to distribute a shareware... What would you call that? I would call it disrespect and mercantilism...

So in a word, would you be so kind at least to adhere to LP Terms of use and remove your Windows binaries + remove all the registration questions/answers from LP servers?

And to all of your users that like your Windows version... I remind that they have an option to get it for free:
http://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?t=1589
https://launchpad.net/opensubdownloader

Though I would propose them a much better solution with two open source projects running on Windows that bring them the benefit of downloading/uploading subtitles to opensubtitles.org + all the required video codecs for Windows built-in the applications:
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/
http://www.umplayer.com/

Oh and BTW I have filed a notice to LP council about all that (https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/220901) .... Let's see what they have to say about this....

Thanks and
Have a nice day :)

Thanks to PhobosK reminder, we just realized that we were wrongly hosting the shareware binary also in Launchpad servers, and using LP Questions&Answers service to answer some of our users inqueries.

This has been all taken care already and we would be leaving the Subdownloader Launchpad project exclusively for the OpenSource version of it and following Launchpad requirements.

The team strongly believes in the Free Software principles that's why we decided to release Subdownloader GPLv3 from the beggining with a dual license(completely legal thing).

More versions of the free opensource version will come soon!

Best Regards.

For inquiries about the shareware version of Subdownloader the email <email address hidden> should be used.
Launchpad is uniquely for dealing with the open source version of it.