[FFmpeg-devel] Fw: ffmpeg GPL violation

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:58:43AM +0000, Jethro Walters wrote:
> --- On Fri, 3/10/08, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:07:06AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:17:00AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:06:26PM +0000, Jethro Walters wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Just passing through the "Hall Of Shame" on ffmpeg's website,
> > > > > and found Voltaic's website, and this little snippet on this
> > > > > page: http://shedworx.com/volmac-legal
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "VoltaicHD for Mac is copyright Systemic Pty Ltd.
> > > > >
> > > > > VoltaicHD for Mac utilises the FFmpeg video application for
> > > > > one part of the conversion process. FFmpeg is used in 'binary'
> > > > > form and the source code of ffmpeg will be provided with the
> > > > > next release of VoltaicHD for Mac.
> > > > >
> > > > > FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the
> > > > > FFmpeg project.
> > > > >
> > > > > FFmpeg is licensed under the LGPL."
> > > > >
> > > > > So, should this stay in the Hall of Shame?
> > > > 
> > > > It will definitely stay in the Hall of Shame, they are not in
> > > > compliance with the license at all!
> > > > 
> > > > A promise to provide the source some day is not
> > > > sufficient.
> > > 
> > > they don't need to provide sources if the binary is built from
> > > unmodified ffmpeg source, the point is understand if their binary
> > > is modified or not
>
> I understand we use LGPL v2.1 or later. Current latest version is 3.
> Should I baseline what I'm looking for under LGPL v2.1 or v3?

I depends on which license is being used by the people creating programs
based on FFmpeg.  For now I guess they will stick with 2.1 and this is
what you should go for.

Diego

P.S.: Your mailer is absolutely horrible, get something that does not
totally mangle all quoted text and cuts down on long lines please.