Hi Marc,

The Mach1 Spatial SDK is an effort to make our research, trouble shooting and 
tooling from the last several years public and available for the community. As 
such we have released the Mach1 Spatial SDK under a Royalty Free License (free 
use up to 100,000 distributions).

Even so you are correct in that some parts of the SDK aren't completely 
open-source. This is to ensure that anyone is free to utilize any part of the 
SDK as they need and are only required to get a license if they have moved into 
a very large scale distribution form (over 100,000 end-users).

We designed this license to let us serve the community at large but enable us 
to issue a license if it becomes a working business model where mutually 
beneficial only. Ensuring we can continue to offer pro bono use to researcher, 
creators and educational sectors while we support large scale distributions in 
UX and best practices. 

We have deliberated on this solution for a long time and decided to design a 
license to ensure exploratory free use, and offer a humanized summary to our 
license to make things more transparent, you can view this here: 
https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk/blob/master/license/Mach1-LicenseDiagram.png
 

I hope this helps clarify the intentions but happy to answer any questions.
Dylan


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      Dylan Marcus
      Technical Director
      A Sound Technology Company.
      New York New York
      The United States of America.
      www.mach1.tech

      Defenders of the Audio Realm™

> On Jun 17, 2020, at 2:58 PM, Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dylan,
> 
> I'm not a copyright specialist, but at first glance the license is not
> "open":
> 
> https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
> 
> The libraries are provided in binary format (no source code); only
> headers are provided.
> 
> Marc
> 
> Le 20-06-17 à 12 h 05, Dylan Marcus a écrit :
>> Proud to announce that the Mach1 Spatial SDK is open and available on our 
>> github: https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk 
>> <https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk>
>> We will be consolidating all our libs/examples/tools here: 
>> https://www.mach1.tech/developers <https://www.mach1.tech/developers>
>> 
>> Included in our SDK is an executable commandline Swiss army knife for vector 
>> based conversions between any spatial or multichannel format to any other 
>> spatial or multichannel format we have found documentation on, we are 
>> striving to make this a community driven tool and are working on a GUI web 
>> app so that anyone can contribute their own custom multichannel 
>> configurations to be built into this executable (and library). Recently we 
>> have added the ability to input custom configurations via JSON to expand on 
>> the usability. 
>> You can find our m1-transcode binaries here: 
>> https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk/tree/master/binaries/executables 
>> <https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk/tree/master/binaries/executables>
>> 
>> After years of use with our team internally on many projects and some key 
>> integrations to expand upon spatial and multichannel audio development to 
>> grow the spatial audio medium; we have matured our SDK and are excited to 
>> see how others might utilize it!
>> 
>> Additionally we have been working on R&D for best practices for different 
>> methods of headtracking for the web when utilized for spatial audio. We hope 
>> this can be combined with the above m1-transcode tool for new methods of 
>> reviewing surround and multichannel content and hopefully make things more 
>> accessible and creative for us all. 
>> 
>> Check out the latest version of this here: https://player.mach1.tech 
>> <https://player.mach1.tech/> (requires webcam)
>> Check out the git here: 
>> https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-web-spatialaudioplayer 
>> <https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-web-spatialaudioplayer>
>> 
>>      340.29 m / s
>> 
>>      Dylan Marcus
>>      Technical Director
>>      A Sound Technology Company.
>>      New York New York
>>      The United States of America.
>>      www.mach1.tech
>> 
>>      Defenders of the Audio Realm™
>> 
>> 
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