[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] web: Add funding.json

[Vittorio Giovara via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> See: https://fundingjson.org/
> See: https://floss.fund/
>
> Based on: https://www.python.org/funding.json and the example from
> fundingjson.org
>
> It is put in the web repository so its all on the plain ffmpeg.org domain
> otherwise extra files are needed
> ---
>  htdocs/funding.json | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 126 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 htdocs/funding.json
>
> diff --git a/htdocs/funding.json b/htdocs/funding.json
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..42664c7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/htdocs/funding.json
> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
> +{
> +    "version": "v1.0.0",
> +
> +    "entity": {
> +        "type": "group",
> +        "role": "owner",
> +        "name": "FFmpeg",
> +        "email": "ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org",
> +        "description": "FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able
> to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty
> much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most
> obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were
> designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is
> also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing
> infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs,
> Solaris, etc. under a wide variety of build environments, machine
> architectures, and configurations.",
> +        "webpageUrl": {
> +            "url": "https://ffmpeg.org/"
> +        }
> +    },
> +
> +    "projects": [{
> +        "guid": "ffmpeg",
> +        "name": "FFmpeg",
> +        "description": "FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able
> to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty
> much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most
> obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were
> designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is
> also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing
> infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs,
> Solaris, etc. under a wide variety of build environments, machine
> architectures, and configurations.",
> +        "webpageUrl": {
> +            "url": "https://ffmpeg.org/"
> +        },
> +        "repositoryUrl": {
> +            "url": "https://ffmpeg.org/download"
> +        },
> +        "licenses": ["spdx:LGPL-2.1-or-later", "spdx:GPL-2.0-or-later"],
> +        "tags": ["audio", "graphics"]
> +    }],
> +
> +    "funding": {
> +        "channels": [{
> +            "guid": "ffmpeg-spi",
> +            "type": "other",
> +            "address": "https://ffmpeg.org/donations.html",
> +            "description": "Paypal, CreditCard, Check, Money Order"
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "ffmpeg-spi-bank",
> +            "type": "bank",
> +            "address": "Please email us for payment details.",
> +            "description": "Bank transfer"
> +        }
> +        ],
> +
> +        "plans": [{
> +            "guid": "ffmpeg-individual",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "FFmpeg individual",
> +            "description": "Pay as much or as little as you want",
> +            "amount": 0,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "visionary",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Visionary Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 155000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "sustainability",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Sustainability Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 95000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "maintaining",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Maintaining Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 63000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "contributing",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Contributing Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 33000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "supporting",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Supporting Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 16500,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "partner",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Partner Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 11000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "participating",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Participating Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 4000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi", "ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "associate",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Associate Sponsor",
> +            "amount": 1500,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi", "ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        },{
> +            "guid": "ffmpeg-maintainer",
> +            "status": "active",
> +            "name": "Sponsor a full time maintainer and patch reviewer",
> +            "amount": 100000,
> +            "currency": "USD",
> +            "frequency": "yearly",
> +            "channels": ["ffmpeg-spi-bank"]
> +        }]
> +    }
> +}
> --


For as long as this project actively pursues hostile takeovers that violate
the spirit of open source contributions and apply a revisionist take to any
negative history, I don't think any funding scheme should be authorized.
The existing FUNDING.json should be deleted since it was pushed without
formal approval.
-- 
Vittorio
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