On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Bug Ficks <bugfi...@live.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > about 4 weeks ago I've emailed Samsung about a license violation in one > of their core libraries used in their SmartTVs. They've copied and > renamed some parts from FFmpeg. > Yesterday they finally released "source" which was exactly one .c and > one .h file with code copied from FFmpeg plus a bunch of precompiled files. > Since FFmpeg can be used with either GPL or LGPL my question is, can > Samsung decide to use LGPL after they've already been caught in a > license violation? > > Kind Regards, > -bugficks > > Hi bugficks, >From my understanding FFmpeg's license depends on what features you enable. If they don't use any GPL part, I'd say they're free to use LGPL. Also, as far as I know, if a piece of software is distributed, the distributor is free to choose whatever license is compatible with any upstream license that was granted to them. (e.g. for BSD+GPL they're free to choose either license). But better await answer from the guru's on this list. Regards, Stijn
