[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] legal: remove Legal Threats section

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 01:28:56 CEST 2015


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Lou Logan <lou at lrcd.com>
> ---
>
> I'm tired of looking at it, being reminded of such things, and it has
> served its purpose long ago.
>
> ---
>  src/legal | 11 -----------
>  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/legal b/src/legal
> index c235d31..1037a69 100644
> --- a/src/legal
> +++ b/src/legal
> @@ -157,14 +157,3 @@ you start trying to make money from patented
> technologies, the owners of
>  the patents will come after their licensing fees. Notably, MPEG LA is
>  vigilant and diligent about collecting for MPEG-related technologies.
>  </p>
> -
> -<h1>Legal threats</h1>
> -
> -<a id="legal_threat"></a><h3>May 30, 2011</h3>
> -<p>
> -Today FFmpeg has received the <a href="threat1.png">first legal
> threat</a> in its existence. Its
> -from a previous root admin of FFmpeg, who now is root admin of the
> -Libav fork of FFmpeg. He claims copyright on the zigzag part of our
> -logo. It has to be noted that he said 4 years ago <a href="
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/44742"><cite>Credit
> to whoever came up with the zigzag idea</cite></a></p>
> -<p><i>Update May 31/June 1:</i> we have replaced the logo with a better
> looking one drawn by
> -Hervé Flores.</p>
> --
> 2.6.1


I agree, lgtm.

Ronald


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