[FFmpeg-devel] legal representation by the SFLC
François Revol
revol
Fri Dec 12 15:12:55 CET 2008
> > OK, since I have had little direct feedback about this, I'd like to
> > know
> > who got in contact with the SFLC and who sent them a signed
> > engagement
> > letter so that I can estimate the strength we have here...
>
> I did not send any letter because my copyright is only on few files,
> and people can easily work around it by just configuring out v4l2 and
> the RTP muxer.
>
> Anyway, if the number of people signing the document is important
> then
> I'll do it (next week, because I will have 0 time until monday).
>
> BTW, I am not sure if this would help, but I can happily assign my
> copyright to some major developer if this can make things easier to
> handle from a legal point of view (I think I can have an "Author:
> Luca
> Abeni" line in the file header, and then a "Copyright <some other
> developer>").
In some countries this is not enough, as you cannot assign copyright
this way (and they actually have something else than copyright), but I
suppose it's enough.
I still need to read mine (what, you sign stuff without reading it ?
Fran?ois.
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