[MPlayer-dev-eng] Fwd: [x264-devel] Suspected GPL violation by Erightsoft "super"

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:18:34PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Yet another GPL rape
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: chl at iupr.net <chl at iupr.net>
> Date: Oct 23, 2006 7:17 PM
> Subject: [x264-devel] Suspected GPL violation by Erightsoft "super"
> To: MPlayer-devel at mplayerhq.hu, x264-devel at videolan.org,
> ffmpeg-devel at lists.sourceforge.net, musepack at gmail.com,
> theora-dev at xiph.org
> Cc: license-violation at gpl-violations.org
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> the SUPER codec by Erightsoft
> 
> http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
> 
> contains lots of GPL and LGPL code:
> mplayer, ffmpeg, x264, musepack, theora,
> which they admit and give credit for.
> 
> Still, their product is proprietary,
> and they insist on it. I tried to get
> the source through their forum, but they
> of course won't give it:
> 
> http://www.erightsoft.net/Supforum.html
> 
> I'll forward this to the different mailing
> lists, so you can discuss and coordinate
> possible action if you want.
> 
> Christoph

For cases like this, I suggest contacting their hosting provider,
individual author isps, local police in their jurisdictions, etc. and
reporting copyright infringement. This should get them taken down and
might scare them into compliance.

Rich