Enforcement could send ripples through Linux multimedia stacks, SBC communities, Android builds, and more.
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(Image credit: Rockchip) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Leading Chinese fabless semiconductor company Rockchip has had one of its major software repositories taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice. Specifically, its rockchip-linux / mpp repository on GitHub is currently inaccessible, after the FFmpeg team complained about Rockchip’s cavalier attitude concerning intellectual property ownership, attribution, and matters of copyright infringement. Rockchip uses this code to accelerate video de/coding on its popular SoCs. If the situation isn’t remedied, it could have broad implications for users of Linux multimedia stacks, SBC communities, Android builds, and more.
The individual FFmpeg contributor sent a DMCA to GitHub to make sure their FFmpeg code remained open source.Rockchip copied FFmpeg code and claimed a licence (Apache 2) that allowed them and others to make the copied code closed source.The code continues to be open source in… https://t.co/4vzVfnMGzB January 5, 2026
FFmpeg shares its multimedia processing toolkit under the LGPL-license, and it alleges that Rockchip has infringed its copyrighted work on the libavcodec library, which contains numerous audio and video parsers and decoders for various formats.
You might assume that this is free and open source software, so little harm has been done. However, Rockchip’s Linux MPP (Media Processing Platform) code on GitHub has wholesale copied swathes of FFmpeg code, removed any attribution, and re-licensed it under Apache, which is incompatible with FFmpeg’s LGPL license. LGPL requires the original license and attribution to be preserved. Moreover, Apache adds patent clauses that LGPLv2.1 does not permit.
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