[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg Hall of Shame

[Reindl Harald]

Am 29.11.2017 um 12:43 schrieb Thirumalaisamy K:
> According to LGPL / GPL it's necessary to provide the complete source codes
> which includes the objects that linked against and scripts that controls
> the compilation & installation. But, the websites linked in official
> download pages are not providing the complete sources. Only just leaving
> the link for the official ffmpeg sources. I have mailed to some of them. I
> have got the reply from one of them (evermeet.cx) that It's not necessary
> to provide the build scripts & claimed it's made from his own hard works
> and asked ffmpeg devs to contact him. It's quite unfortunate to see this
> response from the maintainer of a officially recommended download
> location.​ People are utilizing the hard work behind ffmpeg & refuses to
> comply with LGPL. It's shame. And ffmpeg team recommends such download
> locations

WTF - ffmmpeg even displays the configure string and so you have all 
informations how it was built

"which includes the objects that linked against" is nonsense, when YOU 
LINK against some GPL sourced libs you need to provide YOUR source - 
caus and affect inverted by you

and with "According to LGPL / GPL" you clearly show you have no idea 
what you are talking about, otherwise you would know the differences of 
both and that you can link against LGPL libraries without release youzr 
sources under the same license

*jesus christ* ffmmpeg is linked against tons of other libraries and you 
are inverting the intention of the GPL

[harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 3.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
   built with gcc 7 (GCC)
   configuration: --prefix=/usr/local --bindir=/usr/local/bin 
--mandir=/usr/local/man --extra-cflags='-I/usr/local/x264 -m64 -O2 -g0 
-mfpmath=sse -mavx -msse2avx -march=sandybridge -mtune=sandybridge 
-fopenmp -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fexceptions 
-fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=6 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
-Wstack-protector -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Ofast -ffast-math 
-funsafe-math-optimizations -Wno-pointer-sign -minline-all-stringops 
-fno-strict-aliasing -fuse-ld=gold -fuse-linker-plugin 
-Wa,--noexecstack' --extra-ldflags='-I/usr/local/x264 -L/usr/local/x264 
-ldl -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,noexecstack -m64 -O2 
-g0 -mfpmath=sse -mavx -msse2avx -march=sandybridge -mtune=sandybridge 
-fopenmp -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fexceptions 
-fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=6 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
-Wstack-protector -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Ofast -ffast-math 
-funsafe-math-optimizations -Wno-pointer-sign -minline-all-stringops 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pie -fPIE -fuse-ld=gold -fuse-linker-plugin 
-Wa,--noexecstack' --ar=gcc-ar --ranlib=true --enable-nonfree 
--enable-gpl --enable-pic --enable-version3 --enable-libmp3lame 
--enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libvpx 
--enable-openssl --enable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetect 
--disable-amd3dnow --disable-amd3dnowext --disable-avdevice 
--disable-debug --disable-devices --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe 
--disable-ffserver --disable-htmlpages --disable-hwaccels 
--disable-iconv --disable-libdc1394 --disable-libfreetype 
--disable-libgsm --disable-libopencore-amrnb --disable-libopencore-amrwb 
--disable-libopencv --disable-libopenjpeg --disable-libopus 
--disable-librtmp --disable-libspeex --disable-libvorbis 
--disable-libxvid --disable-podpages --disable-postproc 
--disable-protocol=gopher --disable-shared --disable-txtpages
   libavutil      55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
   libavcodec     57.107.100 / 57.107.100
   libavformat    57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
   libavfilter     6.107.100 /  6.107.100
   libswscale      4.  8.100 /  4.  8.100
   libswresample   2.  9.100 /  2.  9.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile 
options] outfile}...