[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg Foundation

[Måns Rullgård]

Alex Beregszaszi <alex at rtfs.hu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:17 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Alex Beregszaszi <alex at rtfs.hu> wrote:
>> > Well if the whole foundation is US registered (as it looks like) it  
>> > will
>> > be sueable easily by US companies. The foundation should be  
>> > somewhere in
>> > Europe.
>> 
>> It doesn't hold (c). I've discussed this issue at length with SFLC and  
>> they don't believe it's much of a real threat. Real / MS would know  
>> the org is support, not (c) / responsible; the development would  
>> continue regardless of whether the org exists. And since it doesn't  
>> hold (c), they'd have to prove that development / RE'ing was a DMCA  
>> violation happening under supervision of the org. At that time, the  
>> org didn't even exist! They will surely lose.
>> 
>> That leaves patent trolls looking for easy cash. I'd say: bring them  
>> bastards on! The SFLC can offer legal assistance here.
>
> But it could easily own the domains, trademarks, the server equipment,
> etc which could be threatened later on.

The server is currently owned by Attila in Switzerland.  There is no
reason to change that.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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