Copyright ©: 2013, BAVC. All Rights Reserved.

QCTools is licensed under a Free BSD License.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

QCTools is an ongoing software development project led by the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities under Grant number PR-50188-13. The project initiated in January 2013 and will span 25 months, concluding on January 31, 2015 (full project description may be found here: http://www.bavc.org/qctools).

This software uses libraries from the FFmpeg project under the LGPLv2.1 (QC Tools does not claim any ownership, partial or otherwise, of the FFmpeg code. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard.), and meets the FFmpeg compliance requirements.

CONTRIBUTORS:

BAVC Project Team

Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director

Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Program Manager

Jennifer Brice, Preservation Program Coordinator

Technical Team

Dave Rice, Senior Consultant

Devon Landes, Technical Consultant

Mark Heath, Programmer and Technical Consultant

Jerome Martinez, Programmer and Technical Consultant

Other Resources

Bay Area Video Coalition Project Site:
http://www.bavc.org/qctools

BSD 3-Clause License:
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Page:
http://www.neh.gov

GNU GPLv2.1:
http://www.gun.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

FFmpeg License Compliance:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html

Fabrice Bellard, FFmpeg owner:
http://www.bellard.org