Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
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.
Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
On 03/16/15 14:52, Luc Verhaegen wrote: 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. i think he already has: https://github.com/simos/keyboardlayouteditor/blob/master/COPYING -- simon Simon Kenyon e: simoncken...@gmail.com m: +353 86 240 0005 l: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/simon-kenyon/0/6b2/744/ s: simonckenyon t: @simonckenyon g: google.com/+SimonKenyon -- 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.
Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 03:16:47PM +, Simon Kenyon wrote: On 03/16/15 14:52, Luc Verhaegen wrote: 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. i think he already has: https://github.com/simos/keyboardlayouteditor/blob/master/COPYING His statements suggest that he just pro-forma copied that. 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.
Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
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 -- 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.
Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
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. For open and Linux desktop portable drivers then please take a close look at the Cedrus open driver developed outside of Allwinner: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus Please note that the security concerns mentioned in this project also applies to Allwinners code as it stems from the Allwinner kernel API and hardware capabilities, not the Cedrus code. Regards Henrik -- 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.
Re: [linux-sunxi] Open source CedarX driver
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:32:51 +0100 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. For open and Linux desktop portable drivers then please take a close look at the Cedrus open driver developed outside of Allwinner: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cedrus Please note that the security concerns mentioned in this project also applies to Allwinners code as it stems from the Allwinner kernel API and hardware capabilities, not the Cedrus code. Just to make it clear, we are talking about the LGPL license here, not GPL. This makes a rather major difference regarding the compliance requirements. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka -- 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.
