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One Bad Fork Deserves Another...One Bad Fork Deserves Another...Posted Jan 19, 2011 20:00 UTC (Wed) by jimwelch (guest, #178)In reply to: FFmpeg turmoil by nix Parent article: FFmpeg turmoil
If this "fork" turns out to be a bad idea or if the new group puts up some kind of brick wall to some devs, It can always be forked again. BUT who owns the name? Is it trademarked? A trademark always has an owner. When Ethereal forked, it became wireshark because of the trademark. GPL does not protect against trademark.
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One Bad Fork Deserves Another... Posted Jan 19, 2011 22:35 UTC (Wed) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]
the domain ffmpeg.org is owned by Fabrice Bellard, but is he involved in the project anymore? I wonder how he feels about this?
One Bad Fork Deserves Another... Posted Jan 19, 2011 22:39 UTC (Wed) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]
Fabrice also owns the trademark. http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
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