Kieran Kunhya

They force copyright assignment, but this is not what we do with communities.

So everyone has basically copyright on what they changed.

And this copyright stays even if at the end you're

your contribution was deleted because the new contribution was based on your previous one, right?

So 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.

And sometimes, well, they are just an email, right?

So you need to actually track down.

I actually, like, traveled to some place to go somewhere that I was, like, sorry, that I had found online to see a

to go to their job and say, well, you licensed that.

Do you want to change from GPL to LGPL?

Most of the times they don't even care.

They wanted to help VLC.

But also it brought me to very complex situation.

I arrived to the work of a person who was a factory worker.

And I said, well, I need you to sign that.

because it was his son who died who actually wrote the code, right?

So I had to explain all those type of open source meaning.

And no, I was not a company trying to rip out the two lines or five lines that that guy did, but was useful.

And the whole community agreed on that.