[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

Cosmin Stejerean cosmin at cosmin.at
Fri Oct 27 21:52:51 EEST 2023



> On Oct 27, 2023, at 9:14 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> 
>> Consider FFlabs, you can look at who is being paid by FFlabs, its being
>> mentioned in various places.
>> Then look at what these people do, so you know what they are paid for.
> 
> I don't know if FFlabs publishes the payments it makes to its consultants, so 
> I can't answer your question. But it sounds odd, as I would expect that that 
> would violate privacy laws. All FFlabs seems to publish is who their 
> consultants are, not what they work on or for.

With a list of FFLabs consultants the "what they work on" can be extracted from the git log or mailing list patches. Not who is paying for the work or how much is being paid, but certainly the what can be inferred with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

- Cosmin


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