[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2018

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/11/18, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:10:39PM -0900, Lou Logan wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, at 3:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >
>> > Would there be interrest in a project to write a QR code / barcode
>> > search & decode filter ?
>>
>> I've personally never scanned a QR code, but maybe I'm an outlier. Seems
>> more like an OpenCV project to me.
>
> The idea would not be so much to use it to scan a single QR code. I was
> thinking more of running it over a video or a collection of videos and scan
> the whole video for QR codes, barcodes from products and so on.
> The idea is for example that if a random product appears in a video, we may
> have a clear enough view of its barcode or other easy machine readable
> identifer
> and can automatically turn it into metadata. This could be quite fun
> to index and search a large video collection that way.
> And it also would raise awareness of what easy parsable information people
> have
> in their videos
>
> OpenCV is BSD, and for basically volunteer work i want to make sure my work
> and future iterations stay available to the public. BSD does not ensure
> this.
> So i probably will not significantly contribute to BSD licensed code unless
> its paid work.

So are GPL and LGPL, so yout want to finally leave?