On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Luc Verhaegen <li...@skynet.be> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:55:15AM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
...
>
> So now there is a LICENSE file stating that the code in
> https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec is LGPL?
>
> So Allwinner believes that by sticking the LGPL on a _binary_ solves all
> the problems? Just like it seems to believe that removing all binaries
> from a kernel tree solves all problems with the GPL?
>
> Really?
>
> This is simply ridiculous.
>
This guy is so toxic. Apparently it's an attitude style to be
permanently negative.
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@Roberto
asuming allwinner has did copy the hardware (speaking about A80 sun9i) and the reason of violating GPL's and not publishing sources is might be possible to get sued by original silicon vendor ... but the question is which silicon vendor uses big.Little + powerVR gpu?
Reading around there is no such silicon vendor who will have big.Little architecture with PowerVR gpu inside.
Where are all these people coming from to defend it? At least one is obviously a shill but man...
Anyway, if they ignored us when asking nicely, how much worse can it get? It's kind of an all or nothing thing. You can't go to market with partial compliance. I got burned by this at Pengpod. My touch screen controller went off the market and none of the replacements had source, just binary kernels packed in Android images. It forced me to bet everything on a new oem that seemed to be as compliant as possible.
Further, imagine you work for a giant tech company with the potential to buy millions of units year. Could you recommend Allwinner to your bosses? Not with the current state of compliance, legally it's impossible to do business at any real scale this way.
Companies figure this out before they even contact AW, it's part of their due diligence. I think this is hurting them more than they know.
>Luc Verhaegen.
On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Christoph Hellwig, with support from the Software Freedom Conservancy, filed suit in Hamburg, Germany against VMware Global, Inc. Hellwig is a prominent contributor to the kernel Linux, releasing his contributions under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. VMware, like everyone, is free to use, modify, and distribute such software under the GPL, so long as they make available the human-readable source code corresponding to their version of the software when they distribute it.
This simple and fair obligation is the cornerstone of the successful cooperation we've seen for decades between organizations both for-profit and non-profit, users, and developers—the same cooperation which has given us the GNU/Linux operating system and inspired a wealth of free software programs for nearly every imaginable use.
Unfortunately, VMware has broken this promise by not releasing the source code for the version of the operating system kernel they distribute with their ESXi software. Now, after many years of trying to work with VMware amicably, the Software Freedom Conservancy and Hellwig have sought the help of German courts to resolve the matter. While the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is not directly involved in the suit, we support the effort.
"From our conversations with the Software Freedom Conservancy, I know that they have been completely reasonable in their expectations with VMware and have taken all appropriate steps to address this failure before resorting to the courts. Their motivation is to stand up for the rights of computer users and developers worldwide, the very same rights VMware has enjoyed as a distributor of GPL-covered software. The point of the GPL is that nobody can claim those rights and then kick away the ladder to prevent others from also receiving them. We hope VMware will step up and do the right thing," said John Sullivan, FSF's executive director.
The suit and preceding GPL compliance process undertaken by Conservancy mirror the work that the FSF does in its own Licensing and Compliance Lab. Both the FSF and Conservancy take a fair, non-profit approach to GPL enforcement, favoring education and collaboration as a means of helping others properly distribute free software. Lawsuits are always a last resort.
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