On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, at 18:31, Elliott Balsley wrote: > > > On Feb 8, 2019, at 01:17, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <j...@videolan.org> wrote: > > > > Decklink SDK has a very weird EULA + headers license that makes it very > > dubious that it is free. > > Decklink refuses to clarify for now. That warrants a non-free flag. > > I know it's very weird, since the SDK has the source code of some of the > > kernel modules (but not of the glue). > > > > Nvenc is different and has clear headers, and well known driver. > > > > I agree it is weird. I will ping Blackmagic again for clarification, > but based on their last statement I think it’s clear that the headers > can be distributed under the Boost license contained in each file.
That would be nice. > Quote: > Access to the DeckLink SDK is governed by the EULA and is only available > from the Blackmagic Design website. Applications that are built with the > SDK are then licensed via the more permissive license contained within > the SDK. > > Carl seemed to agree that the headers are not the issue, but the > Decklink driver is not considered a system library. What makes Nvidia a > system library if Decklink is not? They are both closed source drivers > used to control a PCIe card. The source of the driver is in the Linux SDK package, but not of the controlling library. (This is the opposite of the nVidia drivers, from my understanding) -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President +33 672 704 734 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel