theora dev - Nov 2006 - Suspected GPL violation by Erightsoft "super"

Hi guys,

the SUPER codec by Erightsoft

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

contains lots of GPL and LGPL code:
mplayer, ffmpeg, x264, musepack, theora,
which they admit and give credit for.

Still, their product is proprietary,
and they insist on it. I tried to get
the source through their forum, but they
of course won't give it:

http://www.erightsoft.net/Supforum.html

I'll forward this to the different mailing
lists, so you can discuss and coordinate
possible action if you want.

Christoph

On 10/23/06, chl@iupr.net <chl@iupr.net> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> the SUPER codec by Erightsoft
>
> http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
>
> contains lots of GPL and LGPL code:
> mplayer, ffmpeg, x264, musepack, theora,
> which they admit and give credit for.
>
> Still, their product is proprietary,
> and they insist on it. I tried to get
> the source through their forum, but they
> of course won't give it:
Theora is not GPL or LGPL, it is BSD.  So at least in that specific
case, they are not obligated to provide source or contribute changes,
only to provide attribution, which they're doing.

Monty

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:17:03PM -0400, chl@iupr.net wrote:
> http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
> 
> contains lots of GPL and LGPL code:
> mplayer, ffmpeg, x264, musepack, theora,
> which they admit and give credit for.
Note that libtheora is BSD, so while they're required to reproduce our 
copyright, they're not actually required to publish source. Sounds like 
that's the major complaint anyway. How's that going? I do see a link to 
all the project websites on the above page. Is that new?

ffmpeg2theora is GPL though.

 -r