The fork happened for human reasons (management-related) rather than technical. ...

		ank_the_elder on July 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Debian returned to FFmpeg The fork happened for human reasons (management-related) rather than technical. See http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html and http://lwn.net/Articles/423703/