Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2
by belorn on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:09PM
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> You can distribute BSD licensed code in binary form as long as you have the required patent licences.
You are confusing the steps. One is a person taking BSD work and adding an additional license to the binary result (proprietary licensing).
The other way, is someone taking BSD work and redistribute it as BSD (under no additional license).
If you attach the BSD license to the binary, you are giving permission to redistribute further than the patent owner permitted. Thus the only allowed scenario with a patent with restriction on distribution, is the first one which is called proprietary licensing.
And BSD allow it, GPL do not. Thus one can summarize
it as as: Some patent licenses require proprietary licensing, which can only be added to a BSD/MIT work. GPL do not allow proprietary licensing, and thus do not work with such patent licenses.
However, that is not the message he made, which is why I called FUD on it. It is also not very interesting statement since anyone who knows about GPL and BSD knows about how they differ regarding proprietary licensing.
You are confusing the steps. One is a person taking BSD work and adding an additional license to the binary result (proprietary licensing).
The other way, is someone taking BSD work and redistribute it as BSD (under no additional license).
If you attach the BSD license to the binary, you are giving permission to redistribute further than the patent owner permitted. Thus the only allowed scenario with a patent with restriction on distribution, is the first one which is called proprietary licensing.
And BSD allow it, GPL do not. Thus one can summarize it as as: Some patent licenses require proprietary licensing, which can only be added to a BSD/MIT work. GPL do not allow proprietary licensing, and thus do not work with such patent licenses.
However, that is not the message he made, which is why I called FUD on it. It is also not very interesting statement since anyone who knows about GPL and BSD knows about how they differ regarding proprietary licensing.