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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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pjmlp ◴[11 Nov 25 19:43 UTC] No.45891849[source]▶
Fully on FFmpeg team side, many companies approach to FOSS is only doing so when it sounds good on their marketing karma, leech otherwise.

Most of them would just pirate in the old days, and most FOSS licences give them clear conscience to behave as always.

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PeaceTed ◴[11 Nov 25 20:18 UTC] No.45892276[source]▶
This is why many have warned against things like MIT licence. Yes, it gives you source code and does easily get incorporated into a lot of projects but it comes at the cost of potential abuse.

Yes, GPL 3 is a lot ideologically but it was trying to limit excessive leeching.

Now that I have opened the flood gates of a 20 year old debate, time to walk away.

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1. NegativeK ◴[11 Nov 25 21:12 UTC] No.45892921[source]▶
AGPL, with no CLA that lets the owners relicense. Then we'll see if the using corporation fully believes in open source.

There's a reason Google turned into year 2000 Microsoft "it's viral!" re. the AGPL. They're less able to ignore the intent of the license and lock away their changes.