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Comment by aew4ytasghe5

Thing is, it was the libav guys who attempted a hostile takeover of ffmpeg by stealing the domain, then did a hard fork they called libav and pushed it into distros like Debian, lying about ffmpeg being deprecated and behaved in many ways massively toxic. There are walls of summaries from this horrible event.

Mans Rullgard was of the guys leading the toxic mob.

Not the other way around as you are implying.

Source: I was involved in ffmpeg at the time and read their mailing list over those years.

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