[FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

Kieran Kunhya kierank at obe.tv
Mon May 15 20:38:50 EEST 2017


Hi,

Out of interest, how did you automate this process? Is it as simple as
looking for the FFmpeg configure string?

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya

On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 16:36 riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Typo: We have inspected *1.6 million free* Google Playstore Android apps
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Please find the list of apps here:
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx8
> > 3ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > We have inspected 1.6 free Google Playstore Android apps and found over
> > 4,300 apps violating GPL 2 or 3 (--enable-gpl) licensing terms.
> >
> > Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!
> >
> > -FSFPolice
> >
> > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 2017-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> > We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research
> >> > project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We
> found
> >> > that over 100 Android apps use GPL version of FFMpeg.
> >> >
> >> > We can share a list of all the apps if you are interested in details.
> >> > Please let us know.
> >>
> >> You could send the list to this mailing list.
> >> (Please do not open 100 tickets on our bug tracker.)
> >>
> >> There's really not much we can do, Carl Eugen
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