[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

[Dennis Mungai]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 23:02, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:

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> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
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> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 20:52, Marton Balint wrote:
> >> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 19:34, Marton Balint wrote:
> >> >> As I described in similar threads before, whether or not the project
> want
> >> >> closed source support for NDI is a subjective issue, please start a
> vote
> >> >> about the removal of libndi if you want to seek this through.
> >> >
> >> > The removal of libndi is actually done and committed.
> >>
> >> That is just sad an unfair.
> >
> > Sad, maybe.
> > Unfair, I disagree. If NDI wants to be in, they know what to do.
>
> It is unfair towards the people who expressied disapproval, yet this
> change was committed without neither vote nor consensus.
>
> Regards,
> Marton
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At the very best, the lack of consensus on this  implies vindictive intent.
Is there something that the FFmpeg developers (see below) have against
Newtek, as a company?
Clearly, they took down the offending FFmpeg build:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10

We've seen other violations, such as this one by Amazon:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7214 that were handled in a much more
graceful manner.

The primary agitator here seems to be kierank:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10#comment:5

What undisclosed history do you have with Newtek (see the reference to
"Andrew") above that isn't disclosed above?
Secondly, you're quite influential in the broadcast industry:
https://www.obe.tv/author/obe/

There's an aura of hostility around this commit, and whatever that is seems
to have spilled over into this.