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

[Ricardo Constantino]

On 3 April 2017 at 10:56, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-04-01 16:37 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo at gmail.com>:
> > On 1 April 2017 at 14:03, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> This is the Boost Software license, very similar to BSD/MIT, so if
> >> that license is all that matters, its obviously fine.
> >>
> >>
> > Just downloaded the latest 10.8.5 SDK and checked every file inside
> > "Blackmagic DeckLink SDK 10.8.5\Win\include". All files contain this
> > same license with only the copyright year changing and a couple extra
> > newlines on some.
>
> First: Are you talking about the library or the headers?
> I was talking about a non-free library that can be used with
> LGPL but not GPL. (Assuming the library really is closed-source)
>

I was talking about the headers, which is the only part that matters to
FFmpeg.


>
> Secondly:
> How did you download it?
> At Debian, it was claimed that although the headers contain these
> BSD headers, you had to agree not to distribute them to get
> the SDK in the first place:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839941
> So even the headers are non-free.
>
>
The SDK probably isn't redistributable due to EULA, sure, but if all
relevant files
specifically contain Boost license don't they override the EULA?