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Ffmpeg’s code is owned by hundreds of people, you’d have to get them all to agree to relicense.
by midasuni 5y ago
Ffmpeg’s code is owned by hundreds of people, you’d have to get them all to agree to relicense.
- StreamBright 5y agoSo it is possible just hard.
- midasuni 5y agoSome are dead, the copyright will have passed on in their wills to next of kin.
- amelius 5y agoNot if you only change the license of the encompassing project, and leave the license of the sub-projects intact. Corporations are too addicted to plug-and-play software to be switching away to those sub-projects; also they'd lose the benefit of the maintenance (you could choose a new license once you maintain parts of the code).