[FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

[Kieran Kunhya]

Hi,

Out of interest, how did you automate this process? Is it as simple as
looking for the FFmpeg configure string?

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya

On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 16:36 riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Typo: We have inspected *1.6 million free* Google Playstore Android apps
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Please find the list of apps here:
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx8
> > 3ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > We have inspected 1.6 free Google Playstore Android apps and found over
> > 4,300 apps violating GPL 2 or 3 (--enable-gpl) licensing terms.
> >
> > Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!
> >
> > -FSFPolice
> >
> > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 2017-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> > We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research
> >> > project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We
> found
> >> > that over 100 Android apps use GPL version of FFMpeg.
> >> >
> >> > We can share a list of all the apps if you are interested in details.
> >> > Please let us know.
> >>
> >> You could send the list to this mailing list.
> >> (Please do not open 100 tickets on our bug tracker.)
> >>
> >> There's really not much we can do, Carl Eugen
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