[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] dormant git accounts

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, 00:10 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:38:09PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, 21:03 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 05:32:40PM +0000, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> > > > On 11/12/2024 5:07 PM, James Almer wrote:
> > > > > I personally don't agree with giving the domain/trademark to the
> > > general
> > > > > assembly, as some have argued. It's just not safe at all.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, I didn't necessarily mean giving it ot the GA. I mean having
> it
> > > in a
> > > > better state than being held hostage by someone who hasn't been
> around
> > > in 20
> > > > years and only talks to one person.
> > > >
> > >
> > > > It essentially gives that one person the ability to hold the whole
> > > project hostage.
> > >
> > > This statement is true for every case where a person holds a trademark
> or
> > > domain
> > > Its also true for every legal entity holding them, as said legal
> entity is
> > > generally
> > > controlled by one person at some level.
> > >
> >
> > It's possible to have entities where no single person is in control.
>
> which then have a single person applying their decission. Again a single
> person who holds the password for the domain registrar.
>
> One can stack more and more complexity to battle all this. But to
> go back to the start. The domain and trademark owner has not abused his
> power ever in the whole lifetime of the project. Some people maybe
> dont trust anyone they have not personally met, but that is unsolvable
> unless you limit the size of the community, there will always be
> community members who never met.
>
>
> >
> > Most importantly though, if one person is in control, it's documented and
> > legally required to be on the public record.
>
> In the past the community preferred not to publically list individuals so
> as to
> make the project and its members harder to attack.
>
> Also everyone in the community knows who owns the domain and trademark.
>

Who owns avcodec.org? As Derek says this domain also matters.

Kieran

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