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 linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
