GPL license violation
Andrea Lazzarotto <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:33:48 +0100
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Hi, I recently discovered a proprietary software violating multiple licenses of several open source projects, including Mplayer, FFmpeg and XviD. The program is SmartCutter by Fame Ring: http://www.fame-ring .com/smart_cutter.html If you download their "portable version" and grep on the binary, you will get quite a bit of stuff: strings smart.exe | grep XviD [...] This software is derived from the GNU GPL XviD codec (1.1.0). [...] Of course no source code nor GPL information is provided by them. I hope you may find a way to force them into complying with the license. They should be obliged to publish their source code at the very least. Best regards -- Andrea Lazzarotto http://andrealazzarotto.com http://lazza.dk