Hi, I thought, that you can use it free in ffmpeg, becuse the header files of SDK says: The software is Provided "AS IS³Š.
Sorry for double mailing. Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen --------------------------------------------------- Marc Struminski Am 17.10.16, 16:58 schrieb "Andreas Cadhalpun" unter <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >Control: tags -1 upstream >Control: retitle -1 enable decklink > >Hi Marc, > >On 17.10.2016 10:35, Struminski, Marc wrote: >> Decklink from here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/support >> >>(https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/support/download/197eba8afa194f03829 >>ea >> 6fdf7d7c163/Linux) Version 1.8 Desktop Video SDK >> >> Nvenc from here: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk >> >>(https://developer.nvidia.com/designworks/video_codec_sdk/downloads/v7.0) > >The nvenc page requires one to sign up a DEVELOPER PROGRAM AGREEMENT, >while the decklink page requires accepting an EULA... > >In particular the decklink EULA says: >"1.4 The Licensee must not lease, rent, distribute or sub-license the >Software" > >Thus it seems to me that re-distribution of these headers is not allowed, >no matter what license is mentioned in the files. >(Even though it seems rather stupid to distribute a file with a >free-software >license header under such an EULA.) > >The nvenc agreement has an exception for such cases: >"Certain Materials provided to You by NVIDIA are accompanied by a separate >license agreement; You acknowledge and agree that such license agreement >shall govern Your use of such Materials, in addition to this Agreement. >You further agree that in the event of any inconsistency between this >Agreement and the corresponding provisions in the license agreement, the >license agreement shall govern." > >So it is possible to re-distribute the nvenc headers and in fact they have >been included in the ffmpeg source repository upstream [1]. > >The decklink EULA lacks such an exception. > >So if you want us to enable decklink in Debian's ffmpeg, I suggest you >contact blackmagic and ask them for a clarification of the license for >their headers. >If they are in fact freely re-distributable, you can then contact ffmpeg >upstream (ffmpeg-de...@ffmpeg.org) and ask them to include these >headers similarly to the nvenc headers. > >Best regards, >Andreas > > >1: >https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=325e56479ff64c884f3bcccf >922a7f7163488b89 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers