> On Oct 14, 2025, at 18:53, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM Nicolas George via ffmpeg-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> michaelni (HE12025-10-13): >>> Also you would have to convince the community, that we want this. iam >>> not sure how the community would think about it, but for example you >>> could offer to donate a percentage of your profits from this to >>> ffmpeg. >> >> Hi. I procrastinated replying about soliciting sponsorships, but if it >> looks like that I cannot anymore. Also, it must not be discussed in the >> dark of an obscure pull request, it needs to be seen on the >> mailing-list. >> >> If this is how us soliciting sponsorships looks like, then we must >> absolutely not do it. >> >> “Pay us and we will consider ignoring the qualms we have about the >> licensing issues of your contribution” is already very bad by itself. It >> is even badder when we realize it is only one step from “pay us and we >> will consider ignoring the qualms we have about the poor quality of your >> code”. >> >> Ideally, accepting contributions should be judged on the merits of the >> contribution itself: is the code beautiful? does it bring practical >> benefit to our users? Out of necessity we have to add: will this be >> properly maintained? But no more. >> >> We can solicit sponsorship, sure, but even the appearance that the money >> is a tit-for-tat for getting one's code into the project, getting >> excellent publicity and future maintenance work for cheap, would be >> extremely detrimental. >> > > I agree. > There's is definitely a discussion to be had about the reasons FFmpeg > accepts a third-party lib. There are now many libs being proposed into > FFmpeg as marketing exercises. > > I also think we should encourage people to maintain and more
Should or shouldn’t? I’m a little confused. > importantly test their own repositories of FFmpeg with their open > source or proprietary libs (on Forgejo?). > > Regards, > Kieran Kunhya > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
