[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] improving shame list

[Robert Swain]

Hey,

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> When looking at our shame.html i was wondering if the list is not a little
> too flat.
> I mean it lists who violate our license with links to details but this makes
> it quite hard for a causual visitor to see who is violating fineprint and
> who is violating the spirit of the license, thus
> 
> I propose to change the list to a table that contains the following entries
> 1. name of product
> 2. name of company
> 3. link to issue tracker (the link should be the number of the issue)
> 4. severity of initial violation
>    (red     for no source or pretending that its all their product
>     orange  for reverse engeneering forbidding, ?
>     yellow  for ?
>    )
> 5. severity of current violation (like 4)
> 6. date of initial contact due to license violation
> 7. date of last confirmation of license violation
> 
> I volunteer to write & post a patch that does change the list to such a table
> but i dont volunteer to fill in things that arent in the current list.
> Ill write&post that patch if there are no objections ...

Sounds good to me. :) Good idea.

Regards,
Rob