[FFmpeg-devel] Fw: ffmpeg GPL violation

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:59:58AM +0200, Diego Biurrun 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
> 
> You distribute MPlayer (and thus FFmpeg) yourself, you should really
> know better.  It's disheatening to see how few people seem to have
> actually read the (L)GPL.  Now please go back and read it, thanks.
> 

If the source is unmodified a link should be enough, please
don't tell me that I need to put online svn exports on
each binary release :)

Regards

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