[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-09-09 Thread compn
compn te...@twmi.rr.com added the comment: but what compn is saying is he cant put anything in the licence for the mediacoder portion of the software the old eula didnt make distinctions between mediacoder and the gpl/lgpl software. thats why i asked for it to be changed. here is what needs

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-09-06 Thread Reimar Döffinger
Reimar Döffinger b...@reimardoeffinger.de added the comment: On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:52:09PM +, AzureSky wrote: to protect his hard work... So instead you tell us we shouldn't protect our hard work? Did it occur to you that that's rather impertinent? this all comes off as alot of FSF

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-09-06 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Carl Eugen Hoyos ceho...@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at added the comment: In case this wasn't clear from my last post: I was unable to find actual source-code. FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1162

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-09-05 Thread AzureSky
AzureSky as...@ashentech.com added the comment: well said victorhooi, well said. also, As I understand it software can be covered under more then once licence, but what compn is saying is he cant put anything in the licence for the mediacoder portion of the software(the parts thats seprate

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-07-26 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Carl Eugen Hoyos ceho...@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at added the comment: @victorhooi: Could you post the link to the source code you found? -- substatus: - reproduced FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-07-25 Thread Victor Hooi
Victor Hooi victorh...@yahoo.com added the comment: heya, I'm just going to chime in with my 2 cents. Firstly, I think you guys are doing an awesome job with FFMPEG kudos to you. However, with this whole exchange with MediaCoder/Stanley, as an objective neutral observer, you guys do realise

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-04-11 Thread AzureSky
AzureSky as...@ashentech.com added the comment: When will you be getting off your asses and suing stan? i mean you made it very clear that was your intent. I would like to see the massive monetary award you would earn from his profiting from your hard work. Maby had you been nicer he would

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2010-04-11 Thread compn
compn te...@twmi.rr.com added the comment: what we want: ffmpeg sources (plus patches, plus any configuration/build scripts) for each ffmpeg/mplayer that mediacoder distributed as required by gpl/lgpl. what we want: remove anti-reverse engineering blocks from eula. but if you want to make

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-11-25 Thread tripeX
tripeX ninjas.on@googlemail.com added the comment: See Diego, I understand your points and the others in this discussion and I had to handle myself violation of licenses in the past but in another way with big companys on the other side. That is real trouble and can get your wiped out

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-11-25 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Ronald S. Bultje rsbul...@gmail.com added the comment: @stanley: You should work together with these guys to get things done. +1 - fully agree. _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-11-19 Thread Neil Haskins
Neil Haskins nhask...@gmail.com added the comment: I've seen this issue unresolved for a while now and I just wanted to add, I'm also unclear on exactly what must be done, but just to sum up... Since Stanley is not distributing MediaCoder as OSS he isn't allowed to include FFmpeg in his

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-11-19 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Ronald S. Bultje rsbul...@gmail.com added the comment: Here's how it usually works: 1) we demand acknowledgement of (past violation). This is required, it is not optional, and it is important. Regardless of the state of the current version (it might even be compliant! who knows), past violations

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-10-12 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Ronald S. Bultje rsbul...@gmail.com added the comment: Please stay off the priority. Stanley has been in violation and thus until we reinstate his license, he remains in violation. -- priority: wish - normal _ FFmpeg issue tracker

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-20 Thread AzureSky
AzureSky as...@ashentech.com added the comment: Ok, So wheres a copy of the GPL/LGPL thats in plane easily understood English? I read the damn thing and despite my vocabulary being quite extensive it was confusing and some parts made little sense. Would Stanley putting up source for each

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-20 Thread AzureSky
AzureSky as...@ashentech.com added the comment: Ok, So wheres a copy of the GPL/LGPL thats in plane easily understood English? I read the damn thing and despite my vocabulary being quite extensive it was confusing and some parts made little sense. Would Stanley putting up source for each

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-20 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Ronald S. Bultje rsbul...@gmail.com added the comment: hi, if your product is GPL, we are happy to help you. Simply come on IRC and we'll try to assist you where you can. Basic rules: - release all sources under GPL/LGPL (and no EULA saying otherwise) - give proper credit - send us patches And

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-20 Thread AzureSky
AzureSky as...@ashentech.com added the comment: ok, so sanley needs to include source code in his installer AND supply source code links on his website on top of including credits to ffmpeg in the EULA? When hes ready I will get my friend to join IRC and talk to you guys, and the project hes

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-10 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun di...@biurrun.de added the comment: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:17:46PM +, Stanley Huang wrote: Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: MediaCoder is a freeware and I charge people for NOTHING. What a sad joke.

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-10 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun di...@biurrun.de added the comment: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:54:14AM +, Stanley Huang wrote: Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: The updated MediaCoder distribution is available here: http://mc.broadintel.com/dl/MediaCoder-0.7.1.4475.exe I will

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-10 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: I've spent time and efforts on this issue, then could you please spend one minute to speak out the problem, if you have a little bit will to have this issue fixed. I've read the GPL text and forgive that due to my limited intellect, I still

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-10 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: If you mean the source code thing, The source code of the previous open-sourced version of MediaCoder is still available on SourceForge. The current version is no longer open-sourced. So I referred to the EULA of foobar2000.

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: MediaCoder uses unpatched FFmpeg and very light patched MPlayer (added pipe fd as input file name, no problem to publish the patch if any one is interested). It does not violiate license of FFmpeg.

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: Actually I am quite willing to publish the patch. I will do this soon. _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: All the mplayer.exe, mencoder.exe, ffmpeg.exe are not encrypted at all. They are packed with upx. Is this wrong? _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun di...@biurrun.de added the comment: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:08:17AM +, Stanley Huang wrote: Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: The ffmpeg bundled with MediaCoder is even not built by myself. They obtained from

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun di...@biurrun.de added the comment: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:48:32AM +, Stanley Huang wrote: Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: Please point out where did I violate the license (assuming that I've published the patch). Publishing a patch is

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: I am just trying to solve the license issue with FFmpeg. I don't understand why you have such a negative attitude. I will rewrite the EULA. It's just one I copied from Internet. No reverse-engineering terms right?

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: If you have things in your mind, is it so much trouble to speak it out? _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: MediaCoder is a freeware and I charge people for NOTHING. _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: EULA updated _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162 _MediaCoder Copyright

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun di...@biurrun.de added the comment: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:38:20PM +, Stanley Huang wrote: What license is FAAC under then? FAAC is nonfree, as we recently discovered. The FAAC homepage has since been updated: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html Helix MP3 encoder

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-07-09 Thread Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang stan...@broadintel.com added the comment: I obtained helix mp3 encoder here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=35540st=0p=313464 The license is in the source package. _ FFmpeg issue tracker

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-06-28 Thread compn
compn te...@twmi.rr.com added the comment: so hows that going? i assume they check the binaries for evidence of violation. then they send a mail requesting source, and wait two weeks for reply? then they send the dmca notice? has anyone had good communication with the sflc?

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-06-24 Thread compn
compn te...@twmi.rr.com added the comment: send sf a dmca notice... they seem to respond to those very quickly. _ FFmpeg issue tracker iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1162

[issue1162] Possible MediaCoder GPL violation

2009-06-10 Thread Jason Garrett-Glaser
New submission from Jason Garrett-Glaser darkshik...@gmail.com: According to various posts on Doom9, MediaCoder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/) uses custom patches in their build of mplayer but refuses to distribute source or patches. They also violate the license of various other items