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

Mironov, Mikhail Mikhail.Mironov at amd.com
Fri Sep 29 18:04:00 EEST 2017


I would like to understand better the nature of the concern. The license is MIT. The paragraph in question is a notice, not limiting the usage of the SDK.
I can definitely reduce number of headers. I can merge all necessary interfaces into one header, though maintenance will take more resources. Which way would you prefer?
Thanks,
Mikhail

-----Original Message-----
From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Carl Eugen Hoyos
Sent: September 28, 2017 5:08 PM
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Added HW accelerated H.264 and HEVC encoding for AMD GPUs based on AMF SDK

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
> +
> +Copyright (c) 2016 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.
> +
> +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
> +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
> +"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including 
> +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, 
> +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
> +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> +
> +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
> +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> +
> +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 AND 
> +NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 
> +BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN 
> +ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN 
> +CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 
> +SOFTWARE

Carl Eugen
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