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Google Chrome's Inclusion of FFMpeg Vs. the LGPL

Posted by timothy on from the to-make-one's-head-spin dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has recently added FFMpeg to Chrome to better support HTML5's video element. FFMpeg is licensed under LGPL 2.1, which states that 'if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Library by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Library.' Google admits to having obtained a patent license for their use, but still claims they are not violating LGPL. Among the confused we find Håkon Wium Lie and Miguel de Icaza, who wonders what FSF might say. Google doesn't feel like asking FSF for clarification."

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  1. Re:And it doesn't by youn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Internet rule #28854 corollary: that includes complaining about a complaint :p

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    Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that :p
  2. Need a car analogy by Quick+Reply · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't understand this at all.

    Could someone please put this into a car analogy?

  3. Re:And it doesn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really hate that corollary and I think it should be removed.

  4. Re:And it doesn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How the hell did we get up to #28854 before we decided to enshrine that in the Bill of Tubes? Did the porn rules really take up all 28853 previous entries?

  5. Re:Seems to be some confusion here by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop making sense, AKAImBatman. You're gonna spoil all the fun of this thread before it even gets going.

    We need to destroy Google immediately! After all, what have they ever done for us?

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  6. Re:And it doesn't by jo42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Internet Rule #42: What was the question?

  7. Re:It's FFmpeg by hampton · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, a capital letter...

    http://bash.org/?367896

  8. Re:And it doesn't by FlyingBishop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fuck you AC, you're out of your element! You came in half-way through the conversation, you've got no idea what we're talking about!

  9. Re:I thought copyright was wrong, Slashdot? by SL+Baur · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdotters think copyright law is wrong and piracy is okay.

    I think you have two distinct groups of slashdotters confused. Those of us who support the GPL do not pirate Microsoft Windows (we don't want it or need it) and we do not pirate music.

    We're fundies man. Do not make me car bomb your OEM Microsoft Windows CDs.

  10. Re:Here's a scenario by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you know isn't just a collective of Lisp Daemons at this point?