alt Hacker NewsCould there have been other / better moves with sending a reminder.
I think the devs of that Chinese company seemed to immediately acknowledge the attribution.
Now the OSS community loses the OSS code of IloveRockchip, and FFmpeg wins practically nothing, except recognition on a single file (that devs from Rockchip actually publicly acknowledged, though in a clumsy way) but loses in reputation and loses a commercial fork (and potential partner).
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They had ample warning and ignored the license. what you're even on about?
We are not going to loose anything. If it’s got a strong enough community then someone will publish a fork with the problem fixed
Your original comment had this at the end...
> - Rockchip's code is gone > - FFmpeg gets nothing back > - Community loses whatever improvements existed > - Rockchip becomes an adversary, not a partner
This is all conjecture which is probably why you deleted it.
Their code isn't gone (unless they're managing their code in all the wrong ways), FFmpeg sends a message to a for-profit violation of their code, the community gets to see the ignorance Rockchip puts into the open source partnership landscape and finally... If Rockchip becomes an adversary of one of the most popular and notable OSS that they take advantage of, again, for profit then fuck Rockchip. They're not anything here other than a violator of a license and they've had plenty of warning and time to fix.
If you have to hound them to stop breaking the law they were already an adversary and the easiest way to comply would be to simply follow the license in which case everyone wins
How do you partner with someone who has so much contempt for you they ignore the license you've given them and, when called on it, simply ignore you?