[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]configure: Fix decklink license dependency

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2017 at 00:20, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, decklink is a non-free dependency.
>>
>> Please comment, Carl Eugen
>>
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>
> IANAL, but this doesn't seem like a non-free license:
>
>  Copyright (c) 2016 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.

This is the Boost Software license, very similar to BSD/MIT, so if
that license is all that matters, its obviously fine.

- Hendrik