[FFmpeg-devel] License violation

Howard Chu hyc at highlandsun.com
Sun Jul 31 22:51:49 CEST 2011


http://www.tubedigger.com/index.html

Their package includes an ffmpeg.exe

violino:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/TubeDigger> wine ffmpeg.exe
FFmpeg version SVN-r26400, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
   built on Jan 18 2011 04:07:05 with gcc 4.4.2
   configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libgsm 
--enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libmp3lame 
--enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore_amrwb 
--enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder=libvpx --arch=x86 
--enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-librtmp 
--extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --target-os=mingw32 
--enable-avisynth --enable-w32threads --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- 
--cc='ccache i686-mingw32-gcc' --enable-memalign-hack
   libavutil     50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
   libavcore      0.16. 1 /  0.16. 1
   libavcodec    52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
   libavformat   52.93. 0 / 52.93. 0
   libavdevice   52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
   libavfilter    1.74. 0 /  1.74. 0
   libswscale     0.12. 0 /  0.12. 0
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] 
outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

But no GPL information of any kind.

violino:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/TubeDigger> ls -l
total 33123
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hyc hyc 12433408 2011-01-18 15:07 ffmpeg.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  2691072 2006-06-12 19:33 Halcyon.msstyles
drwxr-xr-x 2 hyc hyc      248 2011-07-31 13:36 images
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  2752280 2011-03-20 07:23 MediaInfo.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  2498704 2006-03-06 19:16 Metro.msstyles
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  3600528 2004-05-24 01:33 ProLCD.msstyles
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  1540096 2009-04-16 06:33 Rasta.msstyles
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     9350 2011-06-12 05:44 style.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     1873 2011-06-12 04:46 style.ie6.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     1172 2011-06-12 04:45 style.ie7.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc  3285136 2003-12-24 21:09 System.msstyles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hyc hyc  3848704 2011-07-29 03:30 TubeDigger.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     2196 2011-07-21 03:31 tubedigger.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     6316 2011-07-29 04:21 tutorial.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 hyc hyc     9051 2011-07-31 13:36 unins000.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hyc hyc  1174997 2011-07-31 13:36 unins000.exe

Kinda steams me that leeches like this charge $25/pop for their stupid GUIs, 
when all the hard work was done by free software developers.
-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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