diff --git a/sdk-legal-information.md b/sdk-legal-information.md index c356852c41..7652afd082 100644 --- a/sdk-legal-information.md +++ b/sdk-legal-information.md @@ -51,9 +51,8 @@ under a different license or have other issues concerning patentability #### GPL code Part of the optional packages are under the GNU GPL -[v2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html) or -[v3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html). This means that you -cannot link the GPL software in a program unless the same program is +[v2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html). This means that +you cannot link the GPL software in a program unless the same program is also under the GPL, but you are invited to seek competent advice on how this works in your precise case and design choices. GPL is called “strong copyleft” because the condition to distributed under the same @@ -92,10 +91,6 @@ disclaiming liability: we invite you to read all of them. Should you need a warranty on the fact that software works as intended or have any kind of indemnification, you have the option to subscribe a software maintenance agreement with a company or entity that is in that business. -Fluendo and Collabora, as well as some other companies, provide software -maintenance agreements under certain conditions, you are invited to -contact them in order to receive further details and discuss of the -commercial terms. ## Data protection @@ -106,7 +101,7 @@ and on an aggregate basis only. #### What licenses are there? -GStreamer binaries containst software under various licenses. See above. +GStreamer binaries contain software under various licenses. See above. #### How does this relate to the packaging system? @@ -152,7 +147,7 @@ preserve the same license, of course). You might also consider to push your modifications upstream, so that they are merged into the main branch of development if they are worth it and will be maintained by the GStreamer project and not by you individually. We invite you not -to fork the code, if at all possible. he Cerbero build system has a +to fork the code, if at all possible. The Cerbero build system has a "bundle-source" command that can help you create a source bundle containing all of the complete corresponding machine readable source code that you are required to provide. @@ -164,7 +159,7 @@ so that by distributing and using software on a general purpose machine you would not violate any of them. But the inconvenient truth is that they do exist. -Software patents are widely available in the USA. Despite they are +Software patents are widely available in the USA. Even though they are formally prohibited in the European Union, they indeed are granted by the thousand by the European Patent Office, and also some national patent offices follow the same path. In other countries they are not