On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:19:00 +0200 Henrik Nordström <[email protected]> wrote: > tor 2015-06-25 klockan 12:13 +0200 skrev Luc Verhaegen: > > The bad copyright headers is just stupidity. The direct loading of > > non-LGPLed binaries into LGPLed code is very deliberate. > > And to my best understanding is not in any way a violation of the LGPL > license. Care to explain what I am missing? (ignoring any past state > of these files)
We are all IANAL. And i can only give my opinion. > If the code had been GPL licensed then sure. But this is LGPL with > it's implicit linking exception. LGPL was created to allow close-source proprietary programs linking to LGPL licensed libraries. The user can choose to not use the proprietary program, and by doing so, this doesn't have an effect in the user ability or in the functionality of the LGPL library, to be used in other uses. In this case. A LGPL licensed library is linking with a proprietary close-source plugin. The user can choose to not use the proprietary plugin, but by doing so, as the "interesting" functionality are implemented in the close-source plugin, the user is left with nothing more that a wrapper, which doesn't have much useful. (expecting the existence of the plugins with source available) Repeating the IANAL, i don't know if the LGPL license allow or not allows this case. But. We should not exit the context of why this new cedarx library came to existence. As the license issues of the older cedarx library were so out of proportion, that the only way to resolve them, was to accept a rewrite of a new cedarx library with equal functionally. After all of this, to get this new cedarx library with uses proprietary close-source plugins, only appears to be a way that allwinner is using to escape their responsibilities. And this behaviour is not acceptable, and should be spoken out. As Allwinner itself wrote: "Allwinner is joining the Linux Foundation to support Linux and to improve what we see as two important open source software development capabilities: collaboration and compliance," > > Regards > Henrik > -- Manuel Braga -- 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.
