Hi Remi On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 02:49:39PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > Hi, > > Le 9 septembre 2025 11:19:26 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel > <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> a écrit : > >Hi Everyone > > > >The subject of funding and sponsors came up a few times recently. > > > >I think FFmpeg needs a clear guideline on this matter. To avoid > >confusion, to avoid disagreements and to ensure community members > >can point potential sponsors in an aggreed direction without hesitation. > > We already went through that before. There are two ways that companies might > credibly sponsor an OSS project on a big enough scale to actually hire > developers: > > 1) Developers are hired or contracted independently. This is already > happening. >
> 2) A legal entity with clear oversight rules that sponsors can trust and > influence collects funding from sponsors and decides whom to pay for what. We have that: "Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware. Our mission is to help substantial and significant open source projects by handling their non-technical administrative tasks so that they aren't required to operate their own legal entity." thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear. -- Julian Assange
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