[FFmpeg-user] Copyright issues iFFmpeg

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun May 1 19:40:17 CEST 2011


Am 01.05.2011 14:16, schrieb Johannes Frotscher:
> Hi there,
> 
> I was just checking whether the team is aware that someone is corrupting the GPL and selling this software for
> profit of $10, $15 $23.32:
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/35846/iffmpeg
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8988/ffmpegx
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21888/visualhub
> 
> According to copyright law, if a software uses another backend software, and it makes up the main part of the
> software in order to function, that software cannot be incorporated without prior consent to the originators of the
> backend license agreement.
> 
> They have been doing that for quite sometime, some as far as almost 10 years. And I don't understand why nothing
> happened over these years. Plus what is the Hall of Shame for on the ffmpeg website?

please would you explain where is your problem?
this is simply a garphical user interface for ffmpeg
not more, not less

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