On 5/15/2017 1:48 PM, riya khanna wrote:
We built a system to match mobile app binaries against an indexing database
of signatures extracted across various popular OSS sources (e.g., ffmpeg).
We should be able to share a draft of our design and implementation with
you soon. Thanks!
You indicated that each of these projects uses a GPL build of FFmpeg.
Are they linking to a GPL build of FFmpeg for Android or are they merely
shipping binaries and invoking the ffmpeg binary as a separate process?
Or perhaps they have extracted source code from FFmpeg, whether licensed
under the GPL or the LGPL, and are using that in their own project,
which would also generally violate the terms of the GPL and/or LGPL.
However, if they are using the approach of just launching ffmpeg in a
separate process, I think that in general doesn't violate the GPL as
long as it is clear where to get the source code that was used to build
the FFmpeg binaries that were shipped with the app.
Aaron Levinson
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Kieran Kunhya <kier...@obe.tv> wrote:
Hi,
Out of interest, how did you automate this process? Is it as simple as
looking for the FFmpeg configure string?
Regards,
Kieran Kunhya
On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 16:36 riya khanna <riyakhanna1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Typo: We have inspected *1.6 million free* Google Playstore Android apps
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, riya khanna <riyakhanna1...@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 <ceffm...@gmail.com
wrote:
2017-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 riya khanna <riyakhanna1...@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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