[FFmpeg-devel] License violation(s), again

[Jarred Nicholls]

Nice find...blasphemy!

2009/11/13 Matti H?m?l?inen <ccr at tnsp.org>

>
> In the endless series of shady "video converter" software violating
> licenses of multiple free software projects, here's another one,
> "Wondershare Video Converter Platinum".
>
> http://www.wondershare.com/multimedia/index.html
>
> The executable offered ("video-converter-platinum_full50.exe", SHA1 sum
> 3291ae163abca46d605738788ee3a86421d7e6f1) contains all the unsurprising
> usual suspects, such as parts of FFmpeg libav*, x264, LAME, and perhaps some
> others. Naturally a typical and generic wrap-up license is offered by the
> installer, with no mention of used libraries or other licenses.
>
> The only interesting difference I found was that in this particular case
> they perpetrators have made some effort themselves and split codecs into
> separate DLLs, and apparently also stripped some error messages and such out
> - possibly to make identification harder. Enough has been left to be
> positive about this, however:
>
> $ strings vdpCodecEx.dll | grep -i ffmpeg
> If you want to help, upload a sample of this file to
> ftp://upload.ffmpeg.org/MPlayer/incoming/ and contact the ffmpeg-devel
> mailing list.
>
> $ strings wp_h264.dll |grep -i x264
> Ax264_2pass.log
>
> etc, etc. I'd say it's a fair bet that the other products from this
> sweatshop also infringe licenses. Well, at least they seem to be enjoying
> fruits of their hard work:
>
> http://www.wondershare.cn/job-recruitment/team-work-1.html
>
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