New submission from Claire Danes <[email protected]>: SPlayerX, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id414675434 , http://hg.splayer.org/splayerx/wiki/Home , software appeared to be a fork of MPlayerX (https://github.com/niltsh/MPlayerX), which depends on FFMPEG. SPlayerX must be licensed in GPLv2.
SPlayerX app on the Apple App Store do not have a copy of GPLv2 license included. It charges $1.99 for a single license, with no distribution of physical medium. According to the home page (http://hg.splayer.org/splayerx/wiki/Home), the App Store version is a modified closed source version of the GPLv2 open source version, that contains some other features. ---------- messages: 13652 priority: normal status: open substatus: open title: SPlayerX offers closed source version, charges for electronic license topic: (L)GPL violation ________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2599> ________________________________________________
