Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-22 Thread Marius Cirsta
On Monday, September 22, 2014 8:24:21 AM UTC+3, Tom Cubie wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, AndrewDB andre...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: For what it's worth, I fully support Luc's actions to document Allwinner's GPL violations. I also believe it is in Allwinner's

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-22 Thread Carlo Caione
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:02:15PM -0700, AndrewDB wrote: For what it's worth, I fully support Luc's actions to document Allwinner's GPL violations. I also believe it is in Allwinner's interest to fully comply with the GPL and that it's a pity that they don't understand this. How many

[linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-21 Thread AndrewDB
For what it's worth, I fully support Luc's actions to document Allwinner's GPL violations. I also believe it is in Allwinner's interest to fully comply with the GPL and that it's a pity that they don't understand this. How many (extremely expensive) engineer-hours has this community generously

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-21 Thread Tom Cubie
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, AndrewDB andreba...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, I fully support Luc's actions to document Allwinner's GPL violations. I also believe it is in Allwinner's interest to fully comply with the GPL and that it's a pity that they don't understand this. How

[linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-16 Thread RFat
Hi Luc, I am by no means an expert on the GPL topic, but I did found a binary file to which some of the source is missing. It is: linux-3.4/drivers/video/sunxi//hdmi/aw/libhdcp Perhaps this helps. On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:21:35 PM UTC+3, Luc Verhaegen wrote: In order to satisfy

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-16 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:45:01PM -0700, RFat wrote: Hi Luc, I am by no means an expert on the GPL topic, but I did found a binary file to which some of the source is missing. It is: linux-3.4/drivers/video/sunxi//hdmi/aw/libhdcp Which repo, where? Definitely does look like it is

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-16 Thread Raanan Fattal
Found it in the famous SDK: http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/SDK/A80/A80_SDK_20140728_stripped/lichee/linux-3.4/drivers/video/sunxi/hdmi/aw/ On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:45:01PM -0700, RFat wrote: Hi Luc, I am by no means an expert

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-09-16 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 01:50:08AM +0300, Raanan Fattal wrote: Found it in the famous SDK: http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/SDK/A80/A80_SDK_20140728_stripped/lichee/linux-3.4/drivers/video/sunxi/hdmi/aw/ Damn. I missed that first time round. Will add it to the wiki in a bit. Thanks! Luc

[linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Robert Berger
HI Luc, On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 5:21:35 PM UTC+3, Luc Verhaegen wrote: In order to satisfy wikipedia, i have to provide a more reliable source than our wiki. Plus, i am sure that very few of those who were stating that GPL violations are not as important as getting an email address,

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:00:10AM -0700, Robert Berger wrote: HI Luc, I think the main issue here is how someone can possibly use a chipset where the software comes with GPL violations in a product and sell this product worldwide. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:29:58AM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:00:10AM -0700, Robert Berger wrote: HI Luc, I think the main issue here is how someone can possibly use a chipset where the software comes with GPL violations in a product and sell this product

[linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Till Jaeger
I think the main issue here is how someone can possibly use a chipset where the software comes with GPL violations in a product and sell this product worldwide. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the copyright holder can file a law suite against whoever sold the product if

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Simon Kenyon
the question going through my head is: are the blobs in question derived from (L)GPL code? if not, then there is no violation -- 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

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up.

2014-08-29 Thread Manuel Braga
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:26:58 +0100 Simon Kenyon simoncken...@gmail.com wrote: the question going through my head is: are the blobs in question derived from (L)GPL code? if not, then there is no violation Did you try to look at our wiki? There was one person that spend considerable amount of

[linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up

2014-08-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
So please stop attacking AW in this way. FWIW, I agree with Luc that it's important to bring this up and make sure that there's some positive movement on that front. Even if it's limited to splitting the blob into a Free glue code linked to a binary blob. And it doesn't have to get all fixed

Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: GPL Violations round-up

2014-08-28 Thread Quink
Speaking something wrong is worse than do nothing. If you are too serious about this problem, Aw will keep their mouth tight. Relax and try to communicate with them. Maybe Aw has made some improvements that we didn't know. Just blame his students is not a good teacher. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at