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> Emby markets itself as an open source competitor to Plex

Which, so long as they provide downstream with the permissions in the open source license they offer, is correct. Whether they are violating upstream open source licenses is an almost entirely separate concern, relevant only in that it could conceivably lose them the right to continue to offer their software at all, under open source or other terms.

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How is it free software if I am unable to produce a build from the the source code that is made available. This clearly violates freedoms 0 and 1.

From the SFLC Guide:

"The Corresponding Source definition – both in GPLv2 and GPLv3 – has not been typically read to include the compiler itself, but rather things like makefiles, build scripts, and packaging scripts."

These are not provided with the source code, and they claim the distributed binaries are licensed under the GPL. How is this correct if they do not satisfy the 4 freedoms?

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