[REQ] license setting on GH

[MarcoRavich]

Hi there, this project is awesome !

Since we've collected it in our HyMPS project list (in the Video Libraries section), can you please set licensing terms for your git ?

Our "problem" is that the badge service generates this:

(generating URL: https://flat.badgen.net/github/license/ffAudio/foleys_video_engine/?label=LICENSE)

Thanks in advance.

[aminya]

The license seems to be GPL, however, the license file does not use a standard format and doesn't state the terms of the GPL license making it quite vague.

[ffAudio]

Apologies for not being clearer. I am no lawyer, so I am not 100% sure what is compatible.

• The engine requires JUCE, which has a dual licensing: either GPL or a paid license with four different tiers
• Currently the engine uses FFmpeg, which is a limited form of L-GPL as I understand it

The foleys_video_engine follows the idea of JUCE. The code of the foleys_video_engine is presented under BSD v3 License for non commercial projects:

• private/internal only
• offered to everybody free of charge
• educational projects offered free of charge
• experimental code eventually becoming a product (at which point it will require a license)

If your project doesn't meet those four points, please get in touch to acquire a paid license. This license allows:

• use the code in open and closed source projects
• offer your project under any terms you wish
• no need for any disclaimers, analytics or anything else It does not allow:
• re-selling the code
• rebrand the source code

And some good news: We are working on replacing the video reading using AVFoundation instead of FFmpeg, which allows using it on macOS and iOS without FFmpeg as dependency. If you want to co-sponsor the windows video reading using OS tools, please get in touch! Any feature commission will be counted against the commercial license.

[aminya]

The foleys_video_engine follows the idea of JUCE. The code of the foleys_video_engine is presented under BSD v3 License for non commercial projects:

Just a clarification. What you are describing is not BSD v3. It is GPL/Copyleft in essence. BSD licenses do not limit the users to uncommercial use cases. Also, GPL code can be technically sold if the source code is available.