On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 02:34:54AM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Henrik Nordström > <hen...@henriknordstrom.net> wrote: > > fre 2015-03-06 klockan 18:28 +0800 skrev Quink: > >> cedarx2.0 is a refactoring of cedarx1.0. The job is finished about > >> just > >> three month ago and not used by most vendors yet. Some work is still > >> needed > >> to port cedarx2.0 to linux. The directory of cedarx2.0 in Android SDK > >> is > >> frameworks/av/media/liballwinner. The directory of cedarx1.0 in > >> Android SDK > >> is frameworks/av/media/CedarX-Projects. Most part of cedarx2.0 is open > >> source. It's not the same situation compared with cedarx1.0. Maybe it > >> is not > >> a big step and not enough, it is a right direction. > > > > The latest cedarx code released by Allwinner is still non-GPL in the > > important parts, and no indications that this will change any time soon. > > Yes they have released much of the glue layers with GPL license, but the > > actual video encoding/decoding parts is till in a binary library which > > is incompatible with the GPL license terms. > > > > As an interim solution for the repo at > https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec > (with the aim to keep the glue code as LGPL while the .so libraries as > closed-source), > would it make sense to split the repository into two parts? > > That is, have a https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec-lib > repository that will contain > the two .so closed-source libraries. > Then, the https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec repository will > include the "media-codec-lib" > as a 'git submodule'. > > Simos
Even if people ignore the terms of the LGPL, like you clearly do, there are still LGPLed symbols present in that binary. I suggest that you start by reading up on the GPL and LGPL licenses. 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 linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
