Opened 9 years ago
#5265 new license violation
SmartCutter violates FFmpeg license
| Reported by: | Andrea Lazzarotto | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | undetermined |
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | Reproduced by developer: | no | |
| Analyzed by developer: | no |
Description
Note: this bug report has been adapted from a similar one on the Mplayer trac.
Summary of the bug: SmartCutter is a for-pay proprietary program developed by Fame Ring. The website is: http://fame-ring.com/smart_cutter.html
The Windows executable can be easily inspected for strings showing that it violates the license of FFMpeg and other FLOSS tools).
How to reproduce: Run this command on the "portable version" executable.
$ strings smart.exe | grep -C 2 -i "enable-gpl" [...] --enable-gpl --enable-postproc libavcodec license: GPL version 2 or later Found %i unreleased buffers! -- Picture size %ux%u is invalid IMGUTILS --enable-gpl --enable-postproc libavutil license: GPL version 2 or later [...]
Fame Ring does not provide GPL information related to the tools used, nor they release the source code.
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