[FFmpeg-devel] Status of yadif relicensing efforts and some general remarks on options of generating money for the project/developers

[Derek Buitenhuis]

On 7/4/2013 5:22 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:
> This is not at all a fair characterization of baptiste's actions. He has
> contributed so much code to main ffmpeg before the fork and has served as a
> maintainer and contributor long after, that he should not be bashed for
> doing what is both legal and IMO legitimate, i.e. to create his own fork
> where he determines priorities and does what he wants in whatever pragmatic
> way he deems reasonable. Many of the things he did for a lot of grateful
> broadcast professionals would have resulted in tiring discussions or
> rejection in main ffmpeg at the time, I assume.

He purposely makes it impossibly hard to backport any fixes. They're GPL-only,
and he has no git history, only tarball drops, so people cant actually *see*
what he has fixed. Sorry, that's a douchebag move.

> Btw, I also think his opinion on this is absolutely ok

I'm not even sure it's relevant. All of his code is gone save for 2 lines.

- Derek