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Not the parent, but here's an example of the converse: VS Code does not play any videos because it does not bundle ffmpeg because doing so would "infect"/burden it with heaps of GPL requirements.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100599, https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html



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