[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg Foundation

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2009, 02:32:57, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
>> > - Also, probably a separate issue, but it's something I have thought
>> > about
>> > in the past, are you considering registering FFmpeg as a trademark?
>>
>> Good point, didn't someone do that already though? If not, we could
>> certainly consider that. What goal would it serve?
>
> It protects our name against abuse by third parties and users would know
> wether they deal with the real thing or not. We could define a set of rules
> describing when and how the FFmpeg name and logo may be used, i.e. in
> magazines, television shows, by other open source applications and for
> commercial use, similar to for example the Mozilla Firefox trademark.

Sounds interesting (as you can see, I hadn't looked into this yet :-)
). What are other people's opinions on this?

Ronald