On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 04:28:56PM +0300, 'Simos Xenitellis' via linux-sunxi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Luc Verhaegen <l...@skynet.be> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hi, > > This is another 'Luc drama' installment, full of loaded, sentimental phrases. > Just like watching another episode of "The Thick of It" while it has > ceased to be funny any more. > The main character in that series is trying to be the central figure > by being ferocious on anything > that does not go through him first. All that leads to a dysfunctional result > and > makes the viewers think: do we really need that? Finest satire that > show, I tell you. > > Are we able to get any important bits out of the sentimental stuff? > > > 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 > > "shut up" > > > releasing some code which moves decoder codecs into modules, and by > > releasing some codecs as open source as well. As i predicted then, > > "i predicted" > > > 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. > > > > The licence text in a header file. It's one of the easy things to fix. > Such cases occur frequently with many companies. There was a similar > issue earlier > and got fixed. > > > 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. > > > > The question is, what options are there for an LGPL library to use > dynamically other (non-LGPL) code, > or how can your program use that LGPL library and dynamically some > other (closed-source) code as well. > > Here is a good summary, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Linking_and_derived_works > > > 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. > > > > "deliberate breaking/bending of the rules" > > One may ask, "deliberate"? (if it is even really "breaking/bending"). > On the Internet apparently it does not matter if you justify a claim. > > > 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... > > > > Apparently, this e-mail is meant for those like Phoronix, so that they > can rehash without checking > and quickly repost. > > Is there really need for such drama? The A13 has been largely > mainlined by members of this community > and the R8, being a bit different, needs some extra work. Instead of > making it a volunteer effort to linux-sunxi, > they are working with Free Electrons in order to fix any issues > pertaining to mainline support. > > Simos
You can stop attempting to justify Allwinners' (and their partners') actions now, it's simply no longer credible. 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.
