[FFmpeg-devel] Yadif relicensing to LGPL

[Robert Krüger]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
>> I don't know if you believe me but this is not the result of me trying
>> to take the easy route.
>
> What stops the sponsoring companies from backing out as soon as they
> have LGPL code?
> They can do so perfectly legally.

They also have the problem/risk of having to maintain otherwise dead
code and not being able to do business with anyone in this project
again. To the people I was in touch with future maintenance was a main
concern.