On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:44:13AM +0800, ke...@allwinnertech.com wrote: > Hi All, > > We're proud to announce a new code release today for CedarX. Before delving > into the details, I'd like to share some context: > > 1. As a growing company, we are doing our best to understand the needs of the > open source software community. This is a learning process. We're working > with different people across the Linux development community to better > understand best practices. > > 2. Open source software development is a collaborative process. It works > because people genuinely want to help others improve and be successful. Some > people are new and others help them learn the ropes over time. We hope that > this same positive feedback process can be applied to GPL. > > With that context, here's an update on our CedarX code release (we welcome > constructive feedback!) > > 1. New code architecture. Driver has been split into several plugins, one > plugin per video format. > 2. GPL-complaint. We have scanned and analyzed the code to ensure that there > is no GPL code used or called. > 3. Partial CedarX video decoder source code release. MPEG2, MPEG4, MJPEG, and > H264 drivers source code available. > > We hope this is helpful to everyone. If not, please let us know how we can > improve. Thanks!
This is a good first step, not only to try to meet some legal obligations, but also to support Allwinners customers and the sunxi community. But... The choice of exactly those codecs for a first(?) release, the fact that you underline the use of a code scanner/analyzer, and then the fact that Allwinner chose to turn this into a modular design with codecs as modules... All that seems to hint at Allwinner intending to keep upcoming modules as binaries. If this happens, not only will that be another massive marketing setback for Allwinner, but we will push the legal limits hard and force a full release of the source code of all binaries that allwinner has released so far. As said countless times before, the LGPL applies to the whole of the binaries Allwinner released before, not just those codecs where LGPLed code was used. 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.
