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

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:55 AM, riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>
> 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 all the apps if you are interested in details.
>> Please let us know.
>
>
> We are interested, we already list some license violators on
> trac.ffmpeg.org:
> http://trac.ffmpeg.org/search?q=gpl+violation
>
> But we lack resources to do something about it. :-(.
>

Idea from IRC: summer of code, but for lawsuits against these kind of
violators, in collaboration with law schools around the country. Anyone
interested? Should pitch this to some universities.

Ronald