The GPL download page lists DSM 5.2 version "5564 branch" dated December 2015 (itself a lagged release) as the latest available source code for download, but this is eight months older than the latest major release "8451 branch". Source code to DSM 6.0 software components (first published in public beta in October 2015) has been withheld. Despite this heavy reliance on FFmpeg to sell its products as media-ready, Synology has not published source code since 2015. Furthermore, Synology uses heavily modified versions of FFmpeg to enable the hardware encoding and decoding features of some of its dedicated hardware products - so called media transcoding NAS models (e.g. The company had used FFmpeg 2.0.2 for DSM version 5.2 but it has switched to FFmpeg 2.7.1 in DSM 6.0. FFmpeg is also used in several of Synology's own optional software packages such as Video Station, and Media Server. Synology ships their products with a Linux distribution called DSM (Disk Station Manager) which incorporates FFmpeg. The company provides some outdated downloads of the open source software used in their many products at Synology ( ) manufactures Network Attached Storage devices based on the Linux operating system. I would like to report a violation of the GPL terms for FFmpeg.
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