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

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 23:51:49 EEST 2017


2017-04-03 18:40 GMT+02:00 Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>:
> 2017-04-03 13:34 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> This is not true (it would mean that you would only have to
> release your headers under GPL to create a distributable
> binary using GPL software linked against non-free libraries).
>
> But since it appears correct that it is not legal to distribute
> the header files either, I will apply the configure patch tomorrow.

Finally pushed and backported.

Carl Eugen


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