[FFmpeg-devel] Relicensing filters and general approach to crowd funding

[Robert Krüger]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu>wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Robert Krüger wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at
> >wrote:
> >
> >> but whats mainly missing ATM is
> >> a list of copyright holders of yadif who need to agree
> >> someone contacting them
> >> an agreement on how to split the money up
> >>
> >> Iam a bit busy to do this myself atm, also i dont want to be the one
> >> who draws a line between whos agreement is needed and whos not. So
> >> if you want to help here, this would be welcome
> >
> > yes, I'll try to do that.
> >
> > I started going through the git history putting together a list of
> authors
> > with their contributions with a suggestion what to do with that (a final
> > decision regarding who to ask for agreement is something I cannot make
> but
> > I will document my opinion but IANAL).
> >
> > Is ffmpeg's git history enough or were there also several authors for the
> > original mplayer code? If so I will go through those commits as well.
>
> There were multiple authors.
>
> --Loren Merritt
>
> thanks for the info!