[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Abuse on the ApplicationCatalog page

[From: Jussi Kukkonen]

Hi Ted,
Could you set your mail program to use some kind of quoting, like ">"?
Reading your response is quite difficult.

Ted Teah wrote:
> If you download the trial and extract the software in the installer run
> stings | grep copyright on the dll's and you will see results for HP,
> reference to the GPL and ffmpeg.  For any one this is to complex for I
> will send you the results of these commands.  I don't think that maemo
> should encourage the violation of the license which is the foundation
> for the FOSS world.    
> 

ffmpeg itself is totally LGPL. So, using unmodified ffmpeg library in a
proprietary application, without releasing any source, is fine.
 Of course this doesn't mean there aren't other license problems with
the "Nokia" Media Studio, but let's be sure before accusing anyone...

-- 
Jussi Kukkonen
<jhkukkon at cc.hut.fi>