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6th June 2009, 23:41 | #1 | Link | ||
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DVD Jon violates the GPL
strings dump of DVD Jon's new app, DoubleTwist, which contains multiple GPL violations by way of both excluding the license for several things (A52codec, ffmpeg libs with --enable-gpl, and libx264) and linking to GPL things (ffmpeg libs with --enable-gpl and libx264) despite being a proprietary app:
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macbook:~ mike$ strings /Volumes/doubleTwist/doubleTwist.app/Contents/Resources/TranscodeTool | grep x264 enables constant quality mode, and selects the quality (x264) minimum interval between IDR-frames (x264) x264 - core %d libx264 libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 x264_macroblock_bipred_init x264_macroblock_cache_load x264_frame_pop x264_frame_shift x264_frame_push_unused x264_frame_pop_unused x264_cpu_detect x264 [warning]: unable to determine cacheline size x264_2pass.log x264 [%s]: x264_slicetype_analyse unknown SLICE_TYPE unsupported in x264_macroblock_write_cabac x264_mb_analyse_inter_p16x16 x264_macroblock_analyse x264_ratecontrol_new x264_ratecontrol_start x264 - core %d%s - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2009 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: %s your cpu does not support MMXEXT, but x264 was compiled with asm support to run x264, recompile without asm support (configure --disable-asm) x264_reference_build_list x264_encoder_close x264_slice_header_write x264 macbook:~ mike$ strings /Volumes/doubleTwist/doubleTwist.app/Contents/MacOS/doubleTwist | grep x264 libx264 From http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/AboutUs.dt: Quote:
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7th June 2009, 01:23 | #8 | Link |
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Other GPL things linked:
xvid faad2 full strings dump sans garbage: http://command-q.org/misc/strings.txt |
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For documentation's sake:
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Update: DS has pointed out that they do, in fact, have a source code page: http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/SourceCode.dt
Until they include the licenses with the binary this is still in violation, but quite a bit better and easier to resolve. Edit: Perhaps not, the GPL is unclear and gnu.org uses "should" rather than "must" with respect to including the license text. Perhaps this is a non-issue, but at least bringing it up has inspired some action. Message to Dark from doubleTwist: Quote:
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7th June 2009, 03:10 | #11 | Link |
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This is funny because DVD Jon was upset when Rogue Amoeba violated Jon's GPL'd code:
http://nanocr.eu/2008/03/15/rogue-developers/ |
7th June 2009, 09:34 | #12 | Link |
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lol Yes! But now that they have taken the proper steps to defuse the situation at hand and have rectified the wrongs committed. I am sure we shall get on with the rest of life with out any further garble.
But great post...
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So, has anybody downloaded it and used it?
If so, is it worthwhile?
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