[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Sponsors & Funding

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

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Hi Remi

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 02:49:39PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 9 septembre 2025 11:19:26 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> a écrit :
> >Hi Everyone
> >
> >The subject of funding and sponsors came up a few times recently.
> >
> >I think FFmpeg needs a clear guideline on this matter. To avoid
> >confusion, to avoid disagreements and to ensure community members
> >can point potential sponsors in an aggreed direction without hesitation.
> 
> We already went through that before. There are two ways that companies might credibly sponsor an OSS project on a big enough scale to actually hire developers:
> 
> 1) Developers are hired or contracted independently. This is already happening.
> 

> 2) A legal entity with clear oversight rules that sponsors can trust and influence collects funding from sponsors and decides whom to pay for what.

We have that:
"Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware. Our mission is to help substantial and  significant open source projects by handling their non-technical administrative tasks so that they aren't required to operate their own legal entity."

thx

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