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

[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 <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Please find the list of apps here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YnBHbsYIyGxQbjpaIbU4LFjha3hx8
> 3ciKLk7htVjpT4/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 any questions. Thanks!
>
> -FSFPolice
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2017-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 riya khanna <riyakhanna1983 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> You could send the list to this mailing list.
>> (Please do not open 100 tickets on our bug tracker.)
>>
>> There's really not much we can do, Carl Eugen
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