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

[Cosmin Stejerean]

> On Oct 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> 
> Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 21.52.51 EEST Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-
> devel a écrit :
>> 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.
> 
> In other words, we know neither what the statement of work is, nor how much 
> FFlabs is paid for or passes on to the consultants. We just guess that maybe 
> what the people listed as consultants are paid to do what they do.
> 
> Then that is nowhere near the level of labour-intensive (for the GA) and 
> privacy-intrusive (for the consultants) that SPI funding would involve, more 
> or less making my point.

Sure, work done via FFLabs has more privacy than work funded with non-profit SPI donations. It's not clear what the problem is though, nobody is forced to accept work via the SPI route, presumably folks can continue to work via FFLabs or via other commercial contracts exclusively if they so prefer. Having more transparency for work funded from donations seems like a good thing.

- Cosmin