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

[riya khanna]

We built a system to match mobile app binaries against an indexing database
of signatures extracted across various popular OSS sources (e.g., ffmpeg).
We should be able to share a draft of our design and implementation with
you soon. Thanks!

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:

> 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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