Are you interpreting that as "if we violate the license, they can revoke our right to use the software" ?? And they use it in 3 products so that would be really bad. That would make sense to have a compliance person.
In the now deleted tweet Theo thrashed VLC codecs to which ffmpeg replied basically "send patches, but you wouldn't be able to". The reply to which was
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https://x.com/theo/status/1952441894023389357
You clearly have no idea how much of my history was in ffmpeg. I built a ton of early twitch infra on top of yall.
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This culminated in Theo offering a 20k bounty to ffmpeg if they remove the people running ffmpeg twitter account. Which prompted a lot of heated discussion.
So when Google Project Zero posted their bug... ffmpeg went understandably ballistic