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Re:In Praise of FFmpeg by naikrovek on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:32PM (#33180256)
how? exactly how?

that person would not have even made the changes to GPL code.

I won't work on ANYTHING GPL or AGPL because I don't want to be forced into doing anything.

so how does that hurt the community? you're claiming ownership over code I haven't even written, now?

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Re:In Praise of FFmpeg by bheadmaster on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:23PM (#33183508)
> how so?

Three words: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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Re:In Praise of FFmpeg by naikrovek on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:33PM (#33184584)
no, that's a straw man. you're making up events that are not part of this and acting as if they necessarily occur. they do not.
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Re:In Praise of FFmpeg by bheadmaster on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:11AM (#33187498)
> you're making up events that are not part of this

Part of what?

You've asked how does person not contributing changes upstream hurt the community. I gave an example of a real-world scenario which has happened with permissive software many times. How is it a strawman?

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