Logitech acquired SightSpeed - possible GPL violation ?

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:48 AM, cuseeme <codewarrior at cuseeme.de> wrote:
> Am 30.10.2008 um 12:56 schrieb Thomas Charron:
>>  Do you mean you'd like to know if the CU30 project was written under
>> Linux
>> using gcc and many other open source tools?
> i talked  about a simple mechanisms whitch are providet from such opensource
> tools , yes

  Well, the tools they have utilized are pretty much available with
any standard distribution of Linux, and having libffmpeg installed.

>>>>  While CU30-L used lots  of tools developed by GNU, it relies heavily on
>>>> the Linux kernel for several of  its interfaces.
> for example:
> Grab -> Calc Difference Frame -> Rate Control -> Quantize -> Huffman code ->
> network

  Probrably not.  Huffman encoding is a generally available algorithm,
so I'm assuming sections of that are not implemented using GPL code.
However, it may be exposing configurations which are used by
libffmpeg.

>>  Considering your email address infers you are possibly a competitor,
>> I would HIGHLY recommend that you do a little more research before
>> posting a message like this on a public GPL list.
> well lets say, i would not pay 30 billion for this peace of cake, thats for
> sure;)
> But "competitor" is not the right word , lets say "cultivator"
> i am collecting resources and build something new and open out of it. ;)

  Well, based on what they are distributing, I'd say the only thing
you can cull out of it would be ffmpeg, which is available anyway.

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-- Thomas