Here spent time to think and document all the IRC chats, the Twitter thread, the attitude of the SoC manufacturer, etc.
There has to be a backstory to suddenly come after 1.5 years for an issue that could have been solved in 10 minutes.
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.
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.
If you immediately escalate to [DMCA / court] because they refuse to fix, then that's very fair, but suddenly like 2 years after silence (if, and only if that was the case, because maybe they spoke outside of Twitter/X), then it's odd.
Also it’s rude, which is reason enough not to do it.
This is what big corporations do to the little guys, so we owe big corporations absolutely nothing more.
They gave Rockchip a year and a half to fix it. It is the responsibility of Rockchip to take care of it once they were originally notified, and the FFmpeg dvelopers have no responsibility to babysit the Rockchip folks while they fulfill their legal obligations.
The FFmpeg devs saw the violation, even laughed about how funny it was, then they tweeted, so the initial drama is originally not that big.
They pointed it out to Rockchip; immediately the developers from Rockchip answered (which is quite rare for big companies!):
If you need something from someone, and they have not done it, you don't send a bomb after 1.5 years of silence. You can send a reminder.If after these reminders, they don't know how to do, and you want them to do something, you can educate them:
Takes 10 minutes.If they refuse to comply, that justifies DMCA. But nothing indicates refusal in the public communications.
About the 1.5 years: silence != patience.
"We gave them time" is not the same as "we gave them a deadline and reminders" or "we communicated and they refused."
Imagine this: you buy me lunch, and I did not pay you back.
Then... nothing. No Venmo request. No reminder. No "hey, can you get me that 10 USD?"Two years later, you take me to small claims court for 500 USD. That's not patience. That's setting someone up to fail.
Now, still:
I'm just wondering how it escalated so much ?