Your original comment had this at the end...
> - Rockchip's code is gone > - FFmpeg gets nothing back > - Community loses whatever improvements existed > - Rockchip becomes an adversary, not a partner
This is all conjecture which is probably why you deleted it.
Their code isn't gone (unless they're managing their code in all the wrong ways), FFmpeg sends a message to a for-profit violation of their code, the community gets to see the ignorance Rockchip puts into the open source partnership landscape and finally... If Rockchip becomes an adversary of one of the most popular and notable OSS that they take advantage of, again, for profit then fuck Rockchip. They're not anything here other than a violator of a license and they've had plenty of warning and time to fix.
The OP deleted that sentence and I don't think it should have be flagged and unseen by others so I have vouched for it. I understand a lot of people disagree with it, and may downvote it but that is different to flagging. ( I have upvoted in just in case )
He offer perspective from a Chinese POV, so I think it is worth people reading it. ( Not that I agree with it in any shape or form )
The sentence is actually just in the comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46396107
You are right, and the FFmpeg devs are also 100% right and I perfectly understand that.
In fact I like the idea to push the big corps and strongly enforce devs' rights.
I think earlier enforcement would have been beneficial here, just that dropping a bomb after 1 year of silence and no reminder (and we still don't know if that was the case), is a bit unpredictable, so I wanted to raise that question
There hasn't been a year of silence. Multiple people from the community have continued bugging Rockchip to address the matter in a public issue on the now-gone Github repo. The idea of a potential DMCA claim was also brought.
All they could say was "we are too busy with the other 1000s chips we have, we will delay this indefinitely".
Ridiculous.