New submission from lemon <[email protected]>:
Hi,
"Hamster Free Video Converter" may violate FFmpeg Licence.
It says "This software uses FFmpeg under GNU GPL v2 licence" on its "About"
window, but there's no description about GPL on license.txt or on its webpage,
nor about its source distribution.
I downloaded "Hamster Free Video Converter" from their official webpage located
at http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com/ .
The size of setup packege (hamsterfreevideoconverter.exe) was 15.4MB, and its
SHA-1 Hash was B6F3604ECB830B5EE5E1E28F302FD53B4D422983 .
After downloading it, I tried to extract the package with innounp, but I got
single executable file and some DLLs. I thought they may compress some
executable files and libraries into one file.
I'm not sure this software uses a 'custom build' of ffmpeg (violating licence),
or this software is just a 'gateway' to the normal ffmpeg build.
Please give me some advice about this issue. I'm not familier with hacking
software :-)
I attached licence.txt.
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files: license.txt
messages: 11474
priority: normal
status: new
substatus: new
title: Possible GPL Violation?
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FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]>
<https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2135>
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Copyright (C) 2010 HamsterSoft
All Rights Reserved
SOFTWARE LICENSE
The user is granted a non-exclusive license to use Hamster Free Video
Converter on one computer (i.e. a single CPU), for any legal purpose, at a
time. The software is distributed free of charge and may be rented, leased, or
may be permanently transferred, if the person receiving it agrees to terms of
this license. If the software is an update, the transfer must include the
update and all previous versions.
Whilst every care has been taken in the construction and testing of this
software, it is supplied subject to the condition that the user undertakes to
evaluate the suitability of the control for his/her purposes. HamsterSoft makes
no representation of the software's suitability for any purpose, and the user
agrees that HamsterSoft has no responsibility for any loss or damage occasioned
by the use of this software.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SOFTWARE AND
DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND HELMSMAN DEVELOPMENT DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, CONFORMANCE WITH DESCRIPTION, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD
PARTY RIGHTS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL
HAMSTERSOFT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS
INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY
TO USE THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT, EVEN IF HANSTERSOFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Should any term of these terms and conditions be declared void or
unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such declaration shall
have no effect on the remaining terms hereof.
If you do not agree to these conditions you should not install this
software.
