On: Professional maintainers: a wake-up call

[coldpie]

You run into problems when there are contributors other than yourself.

[StreamBright → coldpie]

Could you elaborate?

[midasuni → StreamBright]

Ffmpeg’s code is owned by hundreds of people, you’d have to get them all to agree to relicense.

[amelius → midasuni]

Not 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).

[StreamBright → midasuni]

So it is possible just hard.

[midasuni → StreamBright]

Some are dead, the copyright will have passed on in their wills to next of kin.