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

[Stuart Cunningham]

2010/9/29 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>> ** 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)
prepare = alter and change and modify in this case.

The licence text is a straight copy of the Boost Library licence:
  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0.html

Which has been analysed by the OSI legal people and accepted as a
permissive licence, and subsequently approved as an Open Source
licence:
  http://ideas.opensource.org/ticket/59

Regards,
Stuart Cunningham