> This is also why there's no need to review the invoices, and no risk of a > legitimate invoice being rejected: Because the deliverable will likely be > the commit (unless the GA objects beforehand and asks SPI to use something > else), so until it (the MR/PR) is accepted, there's no invoice to start > with. And as STF is footing the bill, there's no reason to FFmpeg concern > itself if it turned out expensive or not when reviewing, and can focus in > actually improving the program (SPI and STF will place some budget limits, > so contributors/contractors know what to expect and the money won't run > out). >
Of course we need to be concerned about this, FFmpeg isn't a think tank for people's fun developments with public money from STF. The same applies to donated funds, we have a responsibility as a community to spend the money for community purposes. You're not doing SPI any favours here with these comments. Kieran On Mon, Jan 29, 2024, 12:02 Kieran Kunhya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> >> [...] the GA definitly cannot object to an invoice for a project that >>> the GA approved previously. >>> > "The General Assembly is sovereign and legitimate for all its >>> decisions regarding the FFmpeg project." >>> >>> When working with a contract (and a SOW), the General Assembly won't be >>> able to block an invoice. >>> Because the General Assembly will already have exercised its sovereignty >>> before the work started. >>> And unless the GA becomes a nation, any court of law would uphold the >>> contract. >>> >> >> In this project, acceptance of a patch is based on the technical contents >> of a patch, not a few vague paragraphs in a SoW. These decisions are made >> by the Technical Committee and the General Assembly. >> >> Tying the project contractually is unacceptable. >> >> There are plenty of "corporate" open source projects where this is fine, >> but there is a reason we are not one of those full of corporate friendly >> code like binary blobs, intrinsics, SDKs etc. >> >> Kieran >> >>> _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
