Opened 9 years ago

#4732 new license violation

BlueIris Video Security Software violates GPL (Perspective Software)

Reported by: Reporter Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: undetermined
Version: unspecified Keywords: blueiris
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Website: ​http://blueirissoftware.com/

Blue Iris Video Security Software
Perspective Software

No indication of GPL use. Claims work as his own.

From the download package, BlueIris.exe is UPX compressed. Decompress, then investigate 22 MB file with strings.exe.

libswresample license: GPL version 2 or later
libswscale license: GPL version 2 or later
libavcodec license: GPL version 2 or later
libavformat license: GPL version 2 or later
libavutil license: GPL version 2 or later

Compile strings discovered:

--enable-gpl --cpu=i686 --prefix=/c/msys/1.0/ffmpeg/build --enable-libx264

Attachments (2)

How_to_Discover_Hidden_GPL_Use_in_BlurIris.htm​ (6.3 KB ) - added by Reporter 9 years ago.
process used to discover
blueiris_exe_strings_output.zip​ (1.4 MB ) - added by Reporter 9 years ago.
blueiris_exe (after upx decompress) strings output

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Change History (2)

by Reporter, 9 years ago

Attachment: How_to_Discover_Hidden_GPL_Use_in_BlurIris.htm​ added

process used to discover

by Reporter, 9 years ago

Attachment: blueiris_exe_strings_output.zip​ added

blueiris_exe (after upx decompress) strings output

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