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/4vzVfnMGzBJanuary 5, 2026
