[FFmpeg-devel] Report on a legal issue in Computer Science

[François Revol]

Hi,

> For example, when working with FFmpeg and live555, i noticed a 
> problem about
> people selling  illegally software with free libraries (GNU, etc..) 
> into it.

Indeed, ffmpeg is a regular target for licence abuse...
You might want to check:
http://ffmpeg.org/shame.html
http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

and broader sites:
http://gpl-violations.org/
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

> I was also interested by the "Treaty on the Protection of 
> Broadcasting
> Organizations" of
> the WIPO "http://wwwDOTeffDOTorg/issues/wipo_broadcast_treaty".

Oh, I didn't know this one, scary.

Fran?ois.