FFmpeg is a collective effort so allowing a single name in a banner is

not nice/fair towards the community of developers.

Also this looks like the best way for resolving the debate about which
is the one person name to be put in the banner.

See the thread:
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Replace "Fabrice Bellard" with "the FFmpeg developers" in  the banner
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:59:12 +0100

Originally committed as revision 21885 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

diff --git a/cmdutils.c b/cmdutils.c
index 275c16a..b21380e 100644 (file)
--- a/cmdutils.c
+++ b/cmdutils.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static void maybe_print_config(const char *lib, const char *cfg)
 
 void show_banner(void)
 {
-    fprintf(stderr, "%s version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c) %d-%d Fabrice Bellard, et al.\n",
+    fprintf(stderr, "%s version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c) %d-%d the FFmpeg developers\n",
             program_name, program_birth_year, this_year);
     fprintf(stderr, "  built on %s %s with %s %s\n",
             __DATE__, __TIME__, CC_TYPE, CC_VERSION);