[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 21:20, Dennis Mungai wrote:
> At the very best, the lack of consensus on this  implies vindictive intent.
> Is there something that the FFmpeg developers (see below) have against
> Newtek, as a company?
> Clearly, they took down the offending FFmpeg build:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10

That does not make the library NDI open-source or free...

> We've seen other violations, such as this one by Amazon:
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7214 that were handled in a much more
> graceful manner.

Amazon does not have a library inside FFMpeg that profits from the FFmpeg project.

> The primary agitator here seems to be kierank:
> 
> What undisclosed history do you have with Newtek (see the reference to
> "Andrew") above that isn't disclosed above?
> Secondly, you're quite influential in the broadcast industry:
> https://www.obe.tv/author/obe/

Please refrain from ad hominem attacks.
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