[FFmpeg-devel] Potential license violation in Google Chrome

compn tempn
Mon Jun 1 20:43:58 CEST 2009


On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:01:02 -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
>On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM, niko <niko at ornia.hampshire.edu> wrote:
>They are including source code:
>http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/ffmpeg/

yep, ffmpeg source is there.

>I can't find any evidence from the binary that these files are included.

from chrome dev channel beta 3. installer downloads this:
http://74.125.165.153/edgedl/chrome/install/182.3/chrome_installer.exe

 Directory of F:\mplayer-test\temp\chrome_installer\chrome\Chrome-bin
\3.0.182.3

06/01/2009  02:37p      <DIR>          .
06/01/2009  02:37p      <DIR>          ..
05/28/2009  02:49a           1,601,024 avcodec-52.dll
05/28/2009  02:49a             147,968 avformat-52.dll
05/28/2009  02:49a              70,656 avutil-50.dll
05/28/2009  01:43p          10,683,376 chrome.dll
05/28/2009  02:49a           3,174,400 gears.dll
05/28/2009  02:49a           8,679,424 icudt38.dll
06/01/2009  02:37p      <DIR>          Locales
05/28/2009  02:49a              60,273 pthreadgc2.dll
06/01/2009  02:37p      <DIR>          Resources
05/28/2009  02:49a             109,040 rlz.dll
06/01/2009  02:37p      <DIR>          Themes
               8 File(s)     24,526,161 bytes

F:\mplayer-test\temp\chrome_installer\chrome\Chrome-bin
\3.0.182.3>strings avcodec-52.dll | grep -i libavcodec
Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled
and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
D:/msys3/ffmpeg-mt/libavcodec/vorbis_dec.c
D:/msys3/ffmpeg-mt/libavcodec/flacdec.c

now if only chrome/chromium would work on win2k ...

-compn



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