PSPMovieCreator and FFMPEG

[Armijn Hemel]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:25:34PM +0200, Peter Roozemaal wrote:

> >>>PSPMovieCreator
> >>>(http://www.smartconverter.com/PSPMovieCreator-review9654.shtml) uses
> >>>ffmpeg and its libraries to encode movies.
> >>>I know this because:
> >>>1) the librarie names is the same and about same size
> >>>2) the frontend size is little as the ffmpeg frontend size
> >>>3) strings in the executable are the same
> >>>4) ffmpeg's parameters are the same as the one in the profile files
> >>>
> >>What did you do about it?
> >>What do you think to do about it, considering that ffmpeg is distributed
> >>under the LGPL?
> >>
> > FFmpeg wasn't just linked, but it was edited to don't display help
> > i guess they did this to hide ffmpeg from 3rd part users as they renamed it to 
> > cvc.exe
> 
> According to you it is likely that cvc.exe is derived from the ffmpeg
> sourcecode. Let's assume that is true, what problems do you have with it
> and what do you want to do about it?
> 
> You can spam this list with "project X contains Open Source code Y"
> messages, but it would be more usefull if you would take action. A
> starting point is reading http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

While I wouldn't want to say it this way, I think it would indeed be more
effective to inform the original makers of ffmpeg that there might be a
violation.

armijn

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