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Kieran Kunhya

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And we've seen that so many times, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

GCC and EGCC in the past.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We have seen, for example, all the web browsers, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

They started as KHML, which becomes WebKit, and then which becomes Blink, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So open source license is like the core of the community.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And people are coming from all around the world, very different type of religion, political borders.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

They work in the same way on a project to solve a specific problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And the specific problem we're working on is to make multimedia easy for everyone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

There are many licenses for many different things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

What people don't understand that public domain is something that doesn't exist worldwide, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So it's all the open source licensing use the copyright law, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

The international copyright law in order to give

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

writes on how you use the software or how you modify.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It's de facto a copyright license contract that you give to the end user or to the developer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And so you have like the first one, which are basically very permissive, MIT, BSD.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You give the code and basically you do whatever you want, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You take it, you modify, you do what you want.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And this is popular for JavaScript and the type of BSD operating system.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And then there is the other part of license which are copy left,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

where you need to give back to the community your modifications and with different string attached.