Open source licensing
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Open source licensing has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Jean-Baptiste KempfFrench software engineer, president of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC media player
Kempf said relicensing libVLC from GPL to LGPL required personally tracking down more than 350 individual contributors because copyright remains with each author.
“if you want to properly re-license, you need to find all the contributors. And at that time, I had to contact more than 350 people”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 53:07
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetLex Fridman Podcast · May 6, 2026 · 4 h 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya explain FFmpeg, VLC, video codecs, handwritten assembly, open-source maintainer burnout and the Google security drama with Lex Fridman.