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jlennox / NvEncSharp

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Legal status of redistributing? #9

Open lostmsu opened 1 year ago

lostmsu commented 1 year ago

Does anyone here have any idea about the legal status of redistributing this work? Especially, the native bits, that get linked against the proprietary NVidia SDKs.

jlennox commented 1 year ago

What do you mean when you say native bits?

I've released everything until MIT license which means you're pretty free to do as you please.

lostmsu commented 1 year ago

Don't you link against NVidia Codec SDK, which has these license terms ?

Specifically, NvEnc.Cuda.Library.dll

jlennox commented 1 year ago

Oh I see. It dynamically links to the .dll installed on the user's machine when they install the GeForce drivers.

I didn't really read through that document but it does appear you're agreeing to their license by using the API. I'd assume this is identical to any other user of CUDA, etc, but I'm not a lawyer (and I only skimmed the start of that doc).