Software license

Approved: 2024-08-20

Copyright © 2024, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

Table of contents🔗

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
5 License
Additional elements

Foreword🔗

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is an internationally-recognized standards developing organization. Headquartered and incorporated in the United States of America, SMPTE has members in over 80 countries on six continents. SMPTE’s Engineering Documents, including Standards, Recommended Practices, and Engineering Guidelines, are prepared by SMPTE’s Technology Committees. Participation in these Committees is open to all with a bona fide interest in their work. SMPTE cooperates closely with other standards-developing organizations, including ISO, IEC and ITU. SMPTE Engineering Documents are drafted in accordance with the rules given in its Standards Operations Manual. For more information, please visit www.smpte.org.

This Standards Administrative Guideline forms an adjunct to the use and interpretation of the SMPTE Standards Operations Manual. In the event of a conflict, the Operations Manual shall prevail.

Introduction🔗

Software is commonly used in Engineering Documents and Registered Disclosure Documents. It can, for example, provide a sample implementation of an algorithm or carry large amounts of machine-readable data.

By making the software available under a permissive copyright license, its use in implementations, both commercial and open-source, is facilitated, and interoperability is therefore enhanced.

2 Conformance🔗

The following keywords have a specific meaning in the context of this document:

shall and shall not express a requirement from which no deviation is permitted;
should and should not express a strong recommendation without necessarily mentioning or excluding other choices;
may expresses explicit liberty (or opportunity) to do something;
Note and informative indicates that the associated prose is not indispensable, and can be removed, changed, or added editorially without affecting the scope, or the document's usage.

4 Terms and definitions🔗

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply:

software: programs, procedures, rules, data, tests and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system

5 License🔗

Wherever its location, all software that is part of an Engineering Document or Registered Document is licensed under the terms of 3-clause BSD license, specified in Element a. The Engineering Document or Registered Document may be in any stage of development or published.

Software may contain components that were developed outside the Standards Community if and only if such components are also licensed under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license.

The copyright notice of Element a shall be present in every file or document that contains the software.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers shall be the sole copyright holder listed in the notice unless the software contain components that were developed outside the Standards Community, in which case the copyright owners listed for those components shall also be included.