FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix

GitHub has disabled Rockchip’s Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims Rockchip copied thousands of lines of code from FFmpeg’s libavcodec library — including decoders for H.265, AV1, and VP9 formats — stripped the original copyright notices, falsely claimed authorship and…