[FFmpeg-devel] Re: question about submitting security patches

[Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, 19:00 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Hi Remi
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 06:03:38PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont via
> ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > Le lauantaina 8. marraskuuta 2025, 10.34.24 Itä-Euroopan normaaliaika
> Thomas
> > Dullien via ffmpeg-devel a écrit :
> > > What's the best way to submit these patches? There is the bug tracker,
> > > there is this mailing list - what's the best way to contribute them?
> >
> > I don't think that DNN-generated patches are compatible with the LGPL in
> the
> > first place, or it is at best very uncertain that they are. So then you
> cannot
> > contribute DNN-generated patches in any useful way at all.
>
> If you have concrete legal analysis or case law that supports this claim,
> please share it.
>

If an LLM was trained on the leaked Microsoft Windows source code and it
used elements of that code when asked to write an FFmpeg patch, would that
patch be acceptable in your eyes?

Kieran

>
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