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command line tool deprecations

command line tool deprecations

Posted Aug 7, 2014 17:35 UTC (Thu) by ux (guest, #98231)
In reply to: command line tool deprecations by DonDiego
Parent article: Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

> You derive all the legitimacy of calling yourself the real FFmpeg project from somehow having got ahold of the domain name.

The name of the project didn't change and continued its development under the same name, with less developers. Libav is a new project, with a new name, and thus should just assume its fork status. Note that there is absolutely nothing wrong about forking when it's done properly.

Actually, this is from https://libav.org/about.html:

> Later we have learned that the FFmpeg founder, who owns the domain, still favors the now-demoted project leader. We of course respect his opinion, which convinced us to fork "properly" under the name Libav

There is no point in arguying here that Libav is the original project since your official page states that it's a fork.


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command line tool deprecations

Posted Aug 7, 2014 17:43 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link]

As I said: both sides disagree and lay claim to being the legitimate successors of the original FFmpeg project.


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