Le perjantaina 22. elokuuta 2025, 15.59.14 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel a écrit : > > Since you tagged the GA on this, I am going to go ahead and request that > > a formal GA vote, which I assume will be conducted before any action, must > > have the option to vote that we respect Paul's request (and arguably, his > > legal right) to not merge his work into FFmpeg. > > This here is a simple (and transparent) vote > Using the mailing list allows people also to discuss and explain their > reasonings (like you did here)
I think that is common knowledge but here goes... A public ballot, also known as plebiscite, is by nature a performative exercise. A secret ballot allows people to express their opinion based purely on the technical and moral merits without the fear of a bad perception and self- censorship. > I do think there is value in hearing the reasonings of people and not > just seeing a number of how many are in favor vs against. It's fine to discuss/debate this publicly. That has nothing to do with how to decide. In fact, this obviously needs to happen before the *informed* decision is made. As a member of the CC and the GA, I agree with Niklaas that any license change needs a GA vote. And obviously that preempts any discussion of how to merge the code. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont Villeneuve de Tapiola, ex-République finlandaise d´Uusimaa _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
