Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-16 Thread Steven Liu
2017-05-16 18:32 GMT+08:00 Carl Eugen Hoyos : > 2017-05-15 17:24 GMT+02:00 riya khanna : > > Please find the list of apps here: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx8 > 3ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing > > As said, I believe it may be useful if you send this list

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-16 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2017-05-15 17:24 GMT+02:00 riya khanna : > Please find the list of apps here: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx83ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing As said, I believe it may be useful if you send this list - as plain text - to this mailing list. Please avoid top-p

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread riya khanna
AFAIK, all Android apps are executed under Java runtime virtual machine sandbox (they cannot fork and start a new process). All shared libraries shipped with app installation packages (e..g, libffmpeg.so) are loaded dynamically from Java runtime using the JNI interface into the host process address

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
On 5/15/2017 1:48 PM, riya khanna wrote: We built a system to match mobile app binaries against an indexing database of signatures extracted across various popular OSS sources (e.g., ffmpeg). We should be able to share a draft of our design and implementation with you soon. Thanks! You indicate

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread riya khanna
We built a system to match mobile app binaries against an indexing database of signatures extracted across various popular OSS sources (e.g., ffmpeg). We should be able to share a draft of our design and implementation with you soon. Thanks! On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Kieran Kunhya wrote:

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread Kieran Kunhya
Hi, Out of interest, how did you automate this process? Is it as simple as looking for the FFmpeg configure string? Regards, Kieran Kunhya On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 16:36 riya khanna wrote: > Typo: We have inspected *1.6 million free* Google Playstore Android apps > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:2

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread riya khanna
Typo: We have inspected *1.6 million free* Google Playstore Android apps On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, riya khanna wrote: > Please find the list of apps here: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx8 > 3ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing > > We have inspected 1.6 f

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-15 Thread riya khanna
Please find the list of apps here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx83ciKLk7htVjpT4/edit?usp=sharing We have inspected 1.6 free Google Playstore Android apps and found over 4,300 apps violating GPL 2 or 3 (--enable-gpl) licensing terms. Let us know if you have a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-11 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2017-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 riya khanna : > We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research > project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We found > that over 100 Android apps use GPL version of FFMpeg. > > We can share a list of all the apps if you are int

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-11 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi, On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:55 AM, riya khanna > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research >> project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We found >> that

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-11 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi, On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:55 AM, riya khanna wrote: > Hi, > > We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research > project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We found > that over 100 Android apps use GPL version of FFMpeg. > > We can share a list of al

[FFmpeg-devel] FFMpeg GPL license Violations by Android apps

2017-05-11 Thread riya khanna
Hi, We are a group of PhD students at Georgia Tech carrying out a research project that explores free software violations by mobile apps. We found that over 100 Android apps use GPL version of FFMpeg. We can share a list of all the apps if you are interested in details. Please let us know. Thank