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What do the public licence texts and access pages say about using the ARRI, RED and Blackmagic RAW SDKs (who may use them, redistribution, reverse engineering), without downloading or accepting anything?

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Three different regimes: Blackmagic's BRAW SDK is governed by a separate royalty-free Developer License Agreement (for building compatible software and distributing the API libraries in object code within it), distinct from the fee-based single-system licence shown first on the same page; RED's R3D SDK is royalty-free for internal development, allows redistribution of listed binaries only unmodified inside your program, forbids reverse engineering of R3D formats and carries an indemnity; ARRI's SDKs come through a free two-year Partner Program membership, with some functions possibly charged. Curator qualifications: Licence texts read 2026-10-22 without accepting; not legal advice. Licence texts change; terms read on 2026-10-22 only; ARRIRAW creation restriction (RDD 30) per producer; Apple ProRes RAW not read. Limitations: Licence texts read 2026-10-22 without accepting; not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.arri.com/en/company/the-arri-philosophy/arri-partner-program",
      "note": "blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/pre-postproduction/file-formats-data-handling/arriraw",
      "note": "blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://pub.smpte.org/pub/rdd30/rdd30-2014.pdf",
      "note": "blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/modal/download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2",
      "note": "blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement",
      "note": "blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Three different regimes: Blackmagic's BRAW SDK is governed by a separate royalty-free Developer License Agreement (for building compatible software and distributing the API libraries in object code within it), distinct from the fee-based single-system licence shown first on the same page; RED's R3D SDK is royalty-free for internal development, allows redistribution of listed binaries only unmodified inside your program, forbids reverse engineering of R3D formats and carries an indemnity; ARRI's SDKs come through a free two-year Partner Program membership, with some functions possibly charged. · locator: blackmagicdesign.com download-with-terms-start/bmd-braw-sdk-2; reddigitalcinema.com/legal/red-r3d-sdk-license-agreement; arri.com ARRI Partner Program source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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