[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Replace "Fabrice Bellard" with "the FFmpeg developers" in the banner

[Ramiro Polla]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FFmpeg is a collective effort so allowing a single name in a banner is
> not nice/fair towards the community of developers, also this is more
> correct for example when adding a new ff* tool (yes I have in mind
> ffprobe).
>
> As for credit and copyright I believe the name(s) at the top of each
> file and - even better - the SCCS log is enough.

> Index: ffmpeg/cmdutils.c
> ===================================================================
> --- ffmpeg.orig/cmdutils.c	2010-02-11 01:06:49.000000000 +0100
> +++ ffmpeg/cmdutils.c	2010-02-11 23:57:11.000000000 +0100
> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
>
>  void show_banner(void)
>  {
> -    fprintf(stderr, "%s version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c) %d-%d Fabrice Bellard, et al.\n",
> +    fprintf(stderr, "%s version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c) %d-%d the FFmpeg developers, et al.\n",
>              program_name, program_birth_year, this_year);
>      fprintf(stderr, "  built on %s %s with %s %s\n",
>              __DATE__, __TIME__, CC_TYPE, CC_VERSION);

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_al#et_alii

IMO It doesn't make much sense to keep it there.