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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.
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.
This document specifies the copyright license for software that is part of Engineering Documents and Registered Disclosure Documents.
Normative
text
is
text
that
describes
elements
of
the
design
that
are
indispensable
or
contains
the
conformance
language
keywords:
"shall",
"should",
or
"may".
Informative
text
is
text
that
is
potentially
helpful
to
the
user,
but
not
indispensable,
and
can
be
removed,
changed,
or
added
editorially
without
affecting
interoperability.
Informative
text
does
not
contain
any
conformance
keywords.
All
text
in
this
document
is,
by
default,
normative,
except:
the
Introduction,
any
clause
explicitly
labeled
as
"Informative"
or
individual
paragraphs
that
start
with
"Note:"
The
following
keywords
"shall"
and
"shall
not"
indicate
requirements
strictly
to
be
followed
have
a
specific
meaning
in
order
to
conform
to
the
document
context
of
this
document:
There are no normative references in this document.
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply:
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.
This
annex
lists
The
following
are
the
non-prose
elements
of
this
document.
document: