Hi Simos, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Simos Xenitellis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Benjamin Henrion <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Quink <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have communicated with the author of source code of libvdecoder.so. >>> The code has been rewrote completely, has no relationship with FFmpeg, >> >> I don't think it would resist a binary analysis. >> > > Doesn't pass the code of conduct (for example, > http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct).
Are you referring to Ben's short reply or are you implying that Allwinner follows that code? If it's the former, he probably could have better articulated his comments, if it's the latter, then I believe that not violating the (L)GPL would be considered a violation of that code. Either way, I'll rephrase his comment: In my experience, from what I've seen when other projects have had to deal with license violations, the company accused of violating the license will expend the smallest amount of time and effort required to deal with the accusations. In general, when binary files containing strings referring to some project that is licensed in a manner requiring the release of source code have been released without source code, companies generally fix the situation by removing or replacing the strings instead of rewriting the component or releasing the source code. Or to put it another way, I highly doubt that Allwinner's programmers have rewritten the code they were using from ffmpeg in a non-license-violating manner that quickly. Given Allwinner's previous behaviour (embedding LGPL code in closed source binaries), I highly doubt that anyone here will be satisfied with any solution Allwinner produces that isn't the release of the complete source code licensed under an applicable license. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: [email protected] Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
