On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 03:27:02PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Copyright laws in most jurisdictions obey the Berne convention, which > requires freedoms to be explicitly stated (and that the classic phrase > "all rights reserved" is obsolete). Stating that it is provided "as is" > does not rxpand to the range of freedoms defined as the Debian Free > Software Guidelines (later adopted as the definition for the Open Source > movement).
The DeckLink SDK header files are really DFSG-free; they are under a BSD-style license with explicit grants of the required freedoms. (ftpmasters have also accepted the license as free, as they are embedded in Nageru, which is shipped in Debian.) The full license text reads: /* -LICENSE-START- ** Copyright (c) 2009 Blackmagic Design ** ** Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization ** obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by ** this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute, ** execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the ** Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to ** do so, all subject to the following: ** ** The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including ** the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer, ** must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and ** all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative ** works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by ** a source language processor. ** ** THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR ** IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, ** FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT ** SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE ** FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ** ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER ** DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ** -LICENSE-END- */ /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
