[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg Foundation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:21:36PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Adrian Stutz <adrian at sttz.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>wrote:
> >> * Free Multimedia Tech / freemediatech.org
> >> * FFMTech (Foundation for Free Multimedia Technologies)
> >> * FFmedia (Foundation for Free MultimEDIA)
> >> * OMF (Open Multimedia Foundation)
> >> * FFm.org (Foundation for Free Multimedia)
> >> * FFmpeg Foundation
> [..]
> > Therefore, I propose following variants using the FF prefix for what it
> > stands for (or at least what Wikipedia says it stands for):
> > * FFMF (Fast Forward Multimedia Foundation)
> > or
> > * FFOMF (Fast Forward Open Multimedia Foundation)
> 
> I don't think any of these were backed by any developer,
> unfortunately.  I kind of like FFMF so I'll give a symbolic backing to
> it (that doesn't mean I'll vote for it), which brings our total to 7
> names. I haven't heard (from SFLC) about any legal issues with the
> name "FFmpeg", so I'll assume that's legally OK. I think I'll start a
> new thread for the voting, which will go as follows:
> 
> "Any FFmpeg contributor / developer (*) may vote for an order of
> preference. Your number 1 will receive 6 points, your number 2 will
> receive 5 points, and so on. If you wish to forfeit points, simply
> don't rank a next one. For example, the following would be OK (use of
> proposed names is randomly chosen in this example):
> 
> 1 OMF
> 2 FFM.org
> 
> Which would result in:
> 1 OMF - receiving 6 points
> 2 FFm.org - receiving 5 points

another example, as iam not sure if above really is clear

1 foo
2 bar
3 bike

means the person voing prefers foo over bar and bar over bike.

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