Jean-Baptiste Kempf

You would need all of their agreement to do that.

And JB will go maybe a bit later and talk about how challenging that process was in VLC to do the relicensing.

So that's a big, big leap.

So you can play video in your game.

The problem is I'm a game developer, and I want to play some videos, and I don't want to be forced to open source the entire game just to play those videos.

So that's where the consulting business, the LibVLC LGPL, allows you to do that.

The LGPL, the library GPO, as it used to be known, allows you to do that.

I would emphasize the community is such a wide-ranging group of people.

There's people in a Syrian war zone with electricity part-time.

There's people from all walks of life, rich, poor, young, old.

So it's quite remarkable to get...

you know, a group of people aligned on something.

Now that's an achievement in itself.

Yes.

It's very matter of fact.

I think you've got to look at it in terms of...

You know, the famous FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers.

And that's true.

And you've got to imagine someone's done a hard day's work at their day job.

They come home, you know, terseness might be a thing, you know, and that's not something to take personally.