Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader
by astrange on Friday July 31, 2015 @08:00PM
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Being LGPLv2 was enough to get FFmpeg some income streams, because almost any shareware video converter you could find shipped it without credit or source distribution, and the SFLC would go after them for copyright violation.
Not sure if there was much contribution or acknowledgement for the longest time from any company (Google, FB, Vimeo, Netflix, Zencoder, etc) using it, and I remember the best they'd do for bug reports was say "yeah it crashes sometimes" and refuse to send sample files.
Eventually Google did have some people contributing full-time, of course. They paid me 1x GSoC (one week's engineer salary) for more than a year of work once. Um, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Not sure if there was much contribution or acknowledgement for the longest time from any company (Google, FB, Vimeo, Netflix, Zencoder, etc) using it, and I remember the best they'd do for bug reports was say "yeah it crashes sometimes" and refuse to send sample files.
Eventually Google did have some people contributing full-time, of course. They paid me 1x GSoC (one week's engineer salary) for more than a year of work once. Um, it seemed like a good idea at the time.