Sovereign Tech Fund Backs FFmpeg Project with a €157K Infusion
'Sovereign Tech Fund, a funding pot supported financially by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, has once again shown itself to be one of Open Source’s great friends and supporters. After providing €1 million in financial support to GNOME at the end of last year and investing more than €200K in the GStreamer project earlier this year, the company is continuing its support for multimedia projects by funding FFmpeg. In light of this, last week, FFmpeg announced its first governmental sponsorship, Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund, which has stepped forward to support the maintenance and sustainability of FFmpeg, a cornerstone software in the multimedia industry, by investing €157K in the project.' -- source: https://linuxiac.com/sovereign-tech-fund-backs-ffmpeg-project/ Cheers, Peter
On Fri, 24 May 2024 10:45:46 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'... last week, FFmpeg announced its first governmental sponsorship, Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund, which has stepped forward to support the maintenance and sustainability of FFmpeg, a cornerstone software in the multimedia industry, by investing €157K in the project.'
FFmpeg includes implementations of every codec that might conceivably be worth using. This includes quite a few patented ones--patented in the US, anyway. I don’t think anybody associated with the FFmpeg project can afford to pay any patent licence fees. Which is a good reason why the project is based in Europe, not the US.
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