[Ffmpeg-devel] Update copyright year

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik
Thu Jun 1 11:30:25 CEST 2006


On Thursday, 01 June 2006 at 10:51, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski said:
> > On Thursday, 01 June 2006 at 10:14, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> >> ?smail D?nmez wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >-    fprintf(stderr, "FFmpeg version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c)
> >> 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard\n");
> >> >+    fprintf(stderr, "FFmpeg version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c)
> >> 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard\n");
> >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  configuration: " FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION "\n");
> >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  libavutil version: "
> >> AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION) "\n");
> >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  libavcodec version: "
> >> AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION) "\n");
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> How about adding the active maintainer instead of the inactive maintainer?
> >
> > How about s/Fabrice Bellard/FFmpeg project/ ?
> 
> That might not be such a good idea, since "FFmpeg project" is not a legal
> entity.  IANAL so I don't know exactly what problems that might cause, should
> we ever need to enforce the copyright, but I'm sure there's something.

Neither is MPlayer Team, yet we have "(C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team".
Neither MPlayer's nor FFmpeg's copyright can be assigned to one person.

Regards,
R.

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