[FFmpeg-devel] Added HW accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding for AMD GPUs based on AMF SDK

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2017-09-28 20:58 GMT+02:00 mmironov <mikhail.mironov at amd.com>:

> +++ b/compat/amd/amf/LICENSE.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +Notice Regarding Standards.  AMD does not provide a license or sublicense to
> +any Intellectual Property Rights relating to any standards, including but not
> +limited to any audio and/or video codec technologies such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4;
> +AVC/H.264; HEVC/H.265; AAC decode/FFMPEG; AAC encode/FFMPEG; VC-1; and MP3
> +(collectively, the "Media Technologies"). For clarity, you will pay any
> +royalties due for such third party technologies, which may include the Media
> +Technologies that are owed as a result of AMD providing the Software to you.

Is this part of the software license?
If yes, this can definitely not be committed to the FFmpeg repository.
If not, please remove it.

Before removing it, please check with the original author (AMD) that
it is not part of the software license.

> +
> +This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the LGPLv2.1.
> +
> +MIT license
> +
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> +
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Carl Eugen