[FFmpeg-devel] Possible violation of FFmpeg's license by Transgaming's Cider

Panagiotis Issaris takis.issaris
Sat Dec 22 15:27:59 CET 2007


Hi,

Michael Niedermayer schreef:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I stumbled through this yesterday, it might be of interest to you guys,
>> but I'm not a lawyer, so it might be all right and just being me
>> thinking negatively.
>>
>> I bought a copy of Command & Conquer 3 for Mac; the game has been ported
>> to Mac by Transgaming (of Cedega fame), through their Cider toolkit
>> (which is probably just based on Cedega itself, although I admit I don't
>> know enough of that).
>>
>> On the game's manual, there is a list of copyright holders, many Free
>> Software projects are listed, including libpng, libjpeg, cg toolkit,
>> dmalloc, SDL, bstring, iniparser, Squish of course ReWind and Wine, but
>> also FFmpeg:
>>
>> "The Cider libquartz.dylib component includes portions of ffmpeg,
>> Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al."
>>
>> I do have libquartz.dylib on the DVD, but I can't find any copy of the
>> LGPL license nor the corresponding source code on either the DVD or the
>> manual, nor I find a written offer to send me the source code.
>>
>> The only reference to source code is at the end of the page:
>>
>> "Source code to the LGPL components is available via CVS access through:
>> http:/transgaming.org/cvs/".
>>
>> I'm not sure if that is enough to be compliant with LGPL license, as if
>> I recall correctly you need to provide the source code, or a written
>> offer, together with the binary form.
> 
> Personally i dont mind how source is provided as long as it is in a reasonable
> way ...
> but, when i click on:
> "CVS download instructions" i reach a page telling me
> "You must read this carefully and agree to it all before you can download the software on this site. "
> I dont have to agree to the LGPL or any of the other hundread licenses
> on that page. This does not exempt them from the requirement of providing
> the source to me (if i had the binary that is)!
> 
> oddly viewcvs is not behind such clickthrough, but i failed to find any
> ffmpeg code in there, anyone knows in which directory/file it is?
> 


http://cvs.transgaming.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/winex/dlls/quartz/ffmpeg/


With friendly regards,
Takis
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