[vlc-devel] [PATCH] access module for BlackMagic SDI cards

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:01:05 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:53:56AM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
>> That license does not seem to allow modifications. So I expect the
> 
> Why do you say that?
> 
> I thought it said:
> "
> ** 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 where do you find the word "alter", "modify", "change" or synonymous
thereto?

use? no
reproduce? no
display? no
distribute? no
execute? no
transmit? no
prepare derivative works? no (write something on top of it != modify it)

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