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@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno In his video Louis uses Youtube and FFmpeg as an example.

It is true that Youtube makes enormous amounts of money using free software such as FFmpeg.

It would also be a good thing if FFmpeg gets a share of money from Youtube. I agree, of course.

However, if FFmpeg suddenly changed its license to be non-commercial I will highly doubt that Youtube will suddenly start paying FFmpeg money.

What is more likely to happen is that Youtube will throw FFmpeg out of the door and use something else, again ending up in a situation where FFmpeg gets no money. But now the usage of FFmpeg is also restricted for everyone else, ending up in an overall worse situation than it was before.