[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg Foundation

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje
Thu Oct 29 18:34:27 CET 2009


Hi Jean-Michel,

2009/10/29 Jean-Michel Pour? <jmpoure at free.fr>:
[..]
> But you should not consider making copyright assignment.
>
> Presently, by copyright law, especially by European law, FFmpeg is a
> common work owned by hundreds of contributors, separately. Assigning
> copyright to a US based structure would weaken FFmpeg as it would make
> only one owner.

100% agree. There will be no copyright assignment. Each contributor
will maintain his/her own copyright.

Ronald



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