I don't understand any advantages of put a device driver code in secret. Someone can explain the advantage of a secret device driver? Maybe is about money. They want to license the code to some company and charge money for that. In case I want to buy the source code, how much this will cost?
Em segunda-feira, 22 de junho de 2015 09:19:54 UTC-3, Luc Verhaegen escreveu: > > Hi, > > It's been a month since Allwinners big "open source" release, where they > tried to shut up the big (and very justified) GPL violations noise by > releasing some code which moves decoder codecs into modules, and by > releasing some codecs as open source as well. As i predicted then, > Allwinner now has taken the next step: > > They produced a binary for the decoder, which is loaded in: > > https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec/blob/72f2b8537/sunxi-cedarx/SOURCE/vencoder/venc_device.c > > > Note the "Proprietary" license notice on top of this and other new > files. > > Even if we ignore the past, all of this is built together with LGPLed > code, and the binary is being dlopened into this LGPLed code. Quite > illegally so. > > This is further deliberate avoidance of responsibility by Allwinner. One > can only assume that Allwinner is incorrigible at this point. They have > been told time and time again what is wrong and they have time and time > again been given possible ways out, in great detail. All we get though, > is microsteps to take off the heat, followed by further deliberate > breaking/bending of the rules. > > This also sheds a further shadow on the C.H.I.P. project. Clearly the > Next Thing Co. guys were very gullible when they went into business with > Allwinner (and believed the statements made by allwinner). Later during > the run of the kickstarter campaign, after all the noise had been made > on the internet about GPL Violations, Next Thing Co. loudly claimed that > they are working the Free Electrons and that all promises of open > sourceness and such would be kept (all?). While this move in itself was > very laudable, it did underline the fact that Next Thing Co. had not > done its homework beforehand. Now Allwinner does this, which clearly > goes in against everything the Next Thing Co. people have promised us so > far... > > Allwinner has some explaining to do (as does Next Thing Co, to a lesser > extent). > > Luc Verhaegen. > -- 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.
