Maxim <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi crews,
>
> Yes, it's no mistake! What you see is just another code implementing
> ProRes decoder.
>
> Now I'm going to explain that confusion.
> Writing a ProRes compatible decoder began as team project in 2010.
> During this period, I created an internal documentation on the coding
> algorithm (entropy coding, slicing and inverse transform); a part of
> this doc has been published at
>
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Apple_ProRes&action=history
>
> already in 2010 (see my nickname "Maxpol" for a proof), but not to much
> to avoid an implementation by someone else.
>
> Later I wrote a working decoder. Due to the lack for interlaced frames
> it was incomplete, but it could handle the most of samples available.
>
> Further I shared my docs and code with another developer, whose name I
> don't want to mention here. He wrote his own code, heavily based on my work.
>
> The team suffered from poor communication and political intrigues...
>
> A few days ago that other developer has submitted his decoder
> anonymously. I feel that the code, containing a significant part of my
> work, was released without proper credit.

This makes him guilty of copyright violation.  I would have a lawyer
send him a nice letter.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
[email protected]
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