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Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request & FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like it will be fixed soon

https://github.com/HermanChen/mpp/commit/fff87da91706d92913ba0254cee8c27eb093ae16
https://github.com/HermanChen/mpp/issues/73

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only after they were forced to. They're criminal trash.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The verbiage of the first sentence is very telling.

We sincerely apologize for drawing so much attention...

...which to me reads as...

We're sorry to our shareholders that we got caught with our pants down.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, so they actually stripped off the attribution to ffmpeg and slapped their own name and license in place of it. Now they're forced to restored the license they're working to rewrite it all themselves so they can delete the copyrighted code. They're so sorry though.