[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel-old] why not have h264encoder in
the libavcodec?  Diego Biurrun diego Thu Nov 10 01:17:11 CET
2005  On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:59:47PM +0100, Marcus Engene
wrote: > A company usually/often cannot do the GPL way. May it
be company policy,  > other licensed code or whatever. So, for
them the only way is to write  > their own code. (Or just steal
the GPL code as history has shown.). I  > would rather prefer
having the company on the side of the project in  > question.
With LGPL it's in their interrest to submit patches etc.
Depends on what you call "the side of the project".  IMO the
situation you describe is the opposite.  You're not on the side
of the project if you give nothing back...  > Imagine Linux with
a license requiring all apps on it to be open source.  > Would
IBM etc toss in all the man hours in the project if that was the
case?  You will have noticed that companies like IBM, SGI, etc
have put quite a few man hours into Linux and not into the
BSDs..  Do you think it's o