tripeX <[email protected]> added the comment: Ok, to get something clear, that I found during reading this "issue":
He should pay you because he asked for donations for HIS software and some ads on his site HE is hosting. He never asked for donations for YOUR FFmpeg code or whatever. Since he does violate some parts of the (L)GPL, he could fix this, right, but to assume that his donation buttons means to pay for your code is little bit .... hm, forget it. But instead of helping him to get rid of the violation, you insult him, tell him you will get your lawyers and such things, well, funny, if he was Microsoft ok, I would understand such behaviour, but doing such things with a programer, who did a real good job on his GUI and patches for some tools beneath this GUI and who offers his program for a long time now without any real alternative to this tool (I tried many tools, but not one was as good as MediaCoder.) for FREE and only asks for donations for HIS work on the GUI and the website/hosting/forums - well, no comment on this. Freeware is the right word for his tool he provides as a GUI for various tools. I read the GPL and the LGPL any many parts of it are bit confusing, even for a programmer that I am and people are sometimes good in programming stuff but not in legal things like licenses or how to interpret them the right way. If you are really going to follow any violation, you got a large job to do, I heared of some software that is sourced close and uses ffmpeg on the back and the company using it is seeling this software for 49$ per Unit and violat in any way against the GPL, but never heard of that you are after them to change this or pay you for their violation. Na, it's late in my country, I'm sleepy and I wrote to much confusing stuff. Conclusion: People that are willed to do everything right shouldn't be attacked and get down to the gorund, they should get help, or someday you wake up, someone else wrote such a thing like ffmpeg from the scratch and is nicer to people that are willed to fix violation problems and you are alone without any userbase. You wouldn't be the first neither the last one. _____________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162> _____________________________________________________
