On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, 00:10 Michael Niedermayer, <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Hi > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:38:09PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel > wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, 21:03 Michael Niedermayer, <mich...@niedermayer.cc> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 05:32:40PM +0000, Derek Buitenhuis wrote: > > > > On 11/12/2024 5:07 PM, James Almer wrote: > > > > > I personally don't agree with giving the domain/trademark to the > > > general > > > > > assembly, as some have argued. It's just not safe at all. > > > > > > > > Sorry, I didn't necessarily mean giving it ot the GA. I mean having > it > > > in a > > > > better state than being held hostage by someone who hasn't been > around > > > in 20 > > > > years and only talks to one person. > > > > > > > > > > > It essentially gives that one person the ability to hold the whole > > > project hostage. > > > > > > This statement is true for every case where a person holds a trademark > or > > > domain > > > Its also true for every legal entity holding them, as said legal > entity is > > > generally > > > controlled by one person at some level. > > > > > > > It's possible to have entities where no single person is in control. > > which then have a single person applying their decission. Again a single > person who holds the password for the domain registrar. > > One can stack more and more complexity to battle all this. But to > go back to the start. The domain and trademark owner has not abused his > power ever in the whole lifetime of the project. Some people maybe > dont trust anyone they have not personally met, but that is unsolvable > unless you limit the size of the community, there will always be > community members who never met. > > > > > > Most importantly though, if one person is in control, it's documented and > > legally required to be on the public record. > > In the past the community preferred not to publically list individuals so > as to > make the project and its members harder to attack. > > Also everyone in the community knows who owns the domain and trademark. > Who owns avcodec.org? As Derek says this domain also matters. Kieran > _______________________________________________ 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".
