> > At least from my understanding it would be perfectly legal to exclude > > the CUDA kernel code from ffmpeg and add an option to the filters > > for specifying a file containing the compiled CUDA kernel to be loaded > > at runtime (via cuModuleLoadData). > > > > What do you think? > > It's certainly something you could do, but the kernels would need to be > distributed separately, respecting the licence of the individual kernel > source files. In the case of the nvidia authored filters, the kernels > are under an MIT style licence, so you'd be able to distribute compiled > kernels, but for yadif_cuda, the kernel source is still covered by the > lgpl and you would have to evaluate what is required for compliance > (IANAL, etc, etc) in that case.
Thanks again for your kind reply. Although I’m not a lawyer myself, I know that if you’re the sole(!) author of the yadif_cuda kernel source, then you would be allowed to publish that code under any additional license you want. But that would be your very own decision, I wouldn’t dare to ask you about doing so. ;-) --- Another way might be local compilation via NVRTC or NVCC, but this would require the CUDA SDK to be installed. I guess you’ve already thought about that..? -- softworkz _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
