[FFmpeg-devel] license violator seeking help to continue his behavior

[Karl Blomster]

Patrice Bensoussan wrote:
> 
> On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:24, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:12:05PM +0100, Patrice Bensoussan wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile ffmpeg for ppc so that it can run on both G3 and
>>> G4 (using altivec with G4). It seems that --enable-runtime-cpudetect
>>> option has been introduced recently in configure, so I assume it would
>>> be the option to use to achieve what I want to do... but doesn't seem
>>> to work... Am I missing something or is this a known issue/limitation?
>>>
>>> /Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/ffmpeg/libswscale/swscale.c: In function
>>> ?getSwsFunc?:
>>> /Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/ffmpeg/libswscale/swscale.c:2001: warning:
>>> implicit declaration of function ?sws_init_swScale_C?
>>> /Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/ffmpeg/libswscale/swscale.c:2002: error:
>>> ?swScale_C? undeclared (first use in this function)
>>> /Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/ffmpeg/libswscale/swscale.c:2002: error: (Each
>>> undeclared identifier is reported only once
>>> /Users/patriceb/tmp/WMA/ffmpeg/libswscale/swscale.c:2002: error: for
>>> each function it appears in.)
>>>
>>> Here is my configure line (I am compiling on an Intel Mac for PPC, not
>>> sure if this matters in this case...):
>>> (notice that it compiles fine for Intel, so issue seems to be ppc
>>> specific...)
>>>
>>> configure --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-nonfree --disable-bzlib
>>> --enable-pthreads --disable-network --enable-small --enable-libmp3lame
>>> --enable-libfaac --arch=ppc --disable-decoder=atrac3 --extra-ldflags="-
>>> isysroot /Xcode2.5/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk -arch ppc --extra-cflags="-
>>> isysroot /Xcode2.5/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk -arch ppc --enable-gpl --
>>> enable-libx264 --enable-libfaad
>>
>> I cannot reproduce your problem on Mac OS X 10.5.
>>
>>
>> But this is not the important thing here.  The important thing here is
>> that you are blatantly violating our license in many ways with your
>> easywma and easywmv shareware programs:
>>
>> http://www.easywma.com/
>> http://www.easywma.com/wmv/
>>
>> And now you have the cheek to come here to get help preparing your next
>> release?  This is galling and the fact that you have some patches in
>> FFmpeg makes it doubly disappointing.
> 
> Can you please elaborate on how I am violating the license? I would be 
> happy to fix any issue related to this?
> Patrice

A wild guess says that since you're compiling ffmpeg with swscale, libx264 and 
various other GPL components, the entire ffmpeg binary becomes GPL licensed and 
hence it is a violation of the GPL to not make the source code of your 
application available.

As it was also noted recently, compiling ffmpeg with both GPL components and 
faac makes the resulting binary illegal to distribute in most (all? IANAL) 
countries where the GPL is enforceable (that is most countries, and most likely 
including yours), but I don't know who would enforce that.

Regards,
Karl Blomster