alt Hacker NewsBad decision and risk/reward calculation for sure. If it's code that is core to your stuff, and it is GPL'd, it's (technically) very tricky to solve.
But here, as FFmpeg is LGPL and we talk about one single file, there is even less work to do in order to fix that.
Yeah, Rockchip seems to have screwed up badly but as per the GitHub DCMA notice:
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/12/2025-12-1...
> ... the offending repository maintainers were informed of the problem almost 2 years ago ([private]), and did nothing to resolve it. Worse, their last comment ([private]) suggests they do not intend to resolve it at all.
Seems like the reporter gave them a lot of time to fix the problem, then when it because obvious (to them) that it was never going to be fixed they took an appropriate next step.