[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-soc] Attention: FFMPEG bkeak License Agreement. You break the law.

[Benjamin Larsson]

Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:24:12PM +0200, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>   
>> I mainly let this through as I don't want any discussion in the future 
>> about that we "are censoring stuff".
>>     
>
> I mostly wanted to point that quoting laws is a bit more than such an
> unsubstantiated mail warrants.
>
>   
>> And the fact that the nelly2pcm 
>> decoder has been taken down due to a DCMA complaint
>> http://code.google.com/p/nelly2pcm/downloads/list.
>>     
>
> Well, with a DMCA complaint you at least have someone
> claiming under penalty of perjury that they own the copyright,
> which is far more (though I have some doubts this is taken seriously).
> Though a license agreement would never give them copyright even if
> it was developed disregarding the terms and assuming
> they were enforceable, so I do indeed wonder what this is based on.
>   

Well the topic says "You break the law". So I answered based on that 
claim, anyway I consider this dealt with now.

MvH
Benjamin Larson