Your question makes no sense. If a license is so restrictive to you that you can’t deploy it to testers, why would you be wanting to evaluate it in the first place?
If you’re not distributing the result to other people, literally nothing you described matters at all.
As for integrating ideas, as long as you don’t copy actual lines of code, simply learning ideas and techniques from any OSS doesn’t cause license infection.
That’s not evaluating a codec though, is it? You’ve gone far beyond the scope of this thread.
If you’re not distributing the result to other people, literally nothing you described matters at all.
As for integrating ideas, as long as you don’t copy actual lines of code, simply learning ideas and techniques from any OSS doesn’t cause license infection.
That’s not evaluating a codec though, is it? You’ve gone far beyond the scope of this thread.