Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> added the comment: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 02:23:49AM +0000, Andy Taylor wrote: > > Hello Diego - contrary to your post, after we spoke on the phone and reviewed > your full list of issues (LGPL and otherwise) we made the appropriate changes > within a week to our website and our installed license file. > 1) We modified sections 1, 3bi, 3bii to remove open source restrictions and > exclude the license text from even covering included open source components, > fully satisfying sections 4 and 6 of the LGPL 2.1 > 2) We called out FFmpeg within the Cooliris information panel inside the > client > 3) We ensured that the license file was properly installed alongside Cooliris > 4) We modified the source download to indicate the appropriate version of > FFmpeg > and included the same build files we used for compiling > > However, we cannot respond to punitive requests that are more restrictive > that > the LGPL 2.1 itself, as you suggested on the phone and in the above thread. > In > light of this, we have removed all FFmpeg components from the most recent > version > of Cooliris (1.10.1 and higher). Within the coming weeks, this will be > propagated > out across all of our distribution channels as they are automatically updated.
I clearly explained on the phone that there was going to be a punitive component and that there had to be one. Otherwise it would make good business sense for companies to ignore our license and only take care of their obligations once told to do so. This is not a strategy we can tolerate. You chose not to accept the punitive component and to willfully continue violating our copyrights. I left open the possibility to negotiate an alternative punitive component. You ignored that as well. If the terms were unacceptable to you, you should have stopped distributing FFmpeg immediately. Instead you continued to distribute it in full knowledge that you were infringing and not going to get back distribution rights from us under the conditions you were willing to accept. > I want to assure you that Cooliris has worked in good faith to resolve these > issues, and it is unfortunate that we had to drop support to close this issue. It is indeed unfortunate if you stop using FFmpeg, but we prefer you not to use it than to violate our license. Diego ____________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue534> ____________________________________________________
