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Unclear licensing wording and intent

Open samuel-proulx opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

The following section is unclear from a legal standpoint:

"Subject to the terms and conditions of the SLA, the licensee of the Software (the "Licensee") hereby, receives a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited, free-of-charge, perpetual and worldwide license, to copy, use, distribute and modify the Software, but only for the purpose of developing, manufacturing, selling, using and distributing products including the Software in binary form, which products are used for compression and/or decompression according to the Khronos standard specifications OpenGL, OpenGL ES and WebGL. Notwithstanding anything of the above, Licensee may distribute [etcdec.cxx] in source code form provided (i) it is in unmodified form; and (ii) it is included in software owned by Licensee."

From my understanding, if we want to distribute the source code, it needs to be distributed as-is with the same license. If we want to change the code, we need to distribute it in binary form. What about distributing it in binary form without doing compression and decompression? What about products that do compression/decompression that does not follow the Khronos standard specification? What about a product that is actually another library A, where another user uses this library to build another library B or an application C and does not use the compression/decompression capability of the original library A in library B or application C?

In which circumstances we cannot redistribute the Software in a binary form?

Thank you!

samuel-proulx avatar Aug 10 '23 13:08 samuel-proulx