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You can find an archive of the links' targets at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:dir:5861f19187336...

Interestingly, the repo has a LICENSES folder that contains the text of the licenses used in the repo:

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/directory/ed4b20...

And yep, they only included the most openly permissive ones there (APL2 and MIT), completely skipping everything else. Ugh.

Maybe because if the ffmpeg people say they have a reason and they've waited 1 year and a half for compliance, we trust them more than whoever relicensed their code without permission.

I didn't downvote. I suspect people did because it sounded like you were defending ILoveRockchip's actions, based on either 1) not understanding what they did, and/or 2) not having access to the facts. People get snippy about abusing Free Software.