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justinclift on Dec 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Professional maintainers: a wake-up call

> Now just subscribe all of the non-tech business people at organizations that use FFMPEG ...

Don't do that bit unless you're sure it's not illegal in your (and their) jurisdiction.

Spam being a thing, and there being laws against it.

bogwog on Dec 11, 2021 [–]

Easy solution, update the FFMPEG license with something like:

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(I was joking btw, in case that wasn't clear)

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