[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Project policy on closed source components

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:08:35AM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Am Fr., 3. Mai 2019 um 07:27 Uhr schrieb Jeyapal, Karthick
> <kjeyapal at akamai.com>:
> 
> > In this case NDI took prompt action and removed the said binaries from their website immediately.
> 
> This is not true, please stop spreading this wrong claim.
> 
> > A similar violation was done by Amazon some time back (https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7214) and
> > we closed that issue as Amazon took down binaries from their website and provided the source
> > code of their plugin
> 
> Yes.
> Note that as somebody who is rather outspoken but not a native speaker
> your email sounds to
> me as if you are trying to bad-mouth Amazon: Do you believe that they
> did not handle above
> ticket correctly? Or do I simply misunderstand?
> 
> > (In this case, NDI plugin is already open source).
> 
> No.
> If this were true, there would be no license violation.
> 
> Do I understand correctly that you write twice in your long text that
> the license violation is
> ongoing, but not done by NDI? This would make no sense to me, could
> you elaborate?
> 

> And finally: What do you suggest to "punish the violator"?

while this question wasnt directed at me ...

Compete with it, provide a better product for a lower price, as in like a
free open replacement. If you succeed the majority of people will be happy.

Its better to replace a feature by a supperior or equivalent one than to
just remove it.

Thanks

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