Makes me jokingly wonder why Linus himself hasn't given AW the finger yet. He did so when he expressed his disgust with Nvidia's way of dealing with the open-source community; not sure if it accounted for the company eventually cooperating, but it sounded like a swift kick in the behind.
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11:55:25 AM UTC+8, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > This was just posted on the allwinner github account: > > https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec > > This contains: > > > https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec/blob/master/sunxi-cedarx/LIBRARY/CODEC/VIDEO/DECODER/libvdecoder.so > > > This binary contains symbols from both ffmpeg (LGPL, but altered/hacked > up) and libVP62 (anti-compiled from java, and taken off the web in > 2006). The LGPL forces Allwinner to produce the full and complete source > code of these binaries. How they are going to explain libVP62 to On2 > Technologies, now google, is beyond me (cfr. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP6) > > With all the previous "indiscretions", it was always possible to claim > that there was some chance that Allwinner was not the source of the many > violations. It was always pretty clear that Allwinner was the source, > there were just too many coincidences, the violation was too all > encompassing, and not a single device maker spilled the goods. The fact > that they threw out a kernel tree with most code and all binaries > removed, was, despite being a ludicrous and laughable action, another > very clear sign that Allwinner was indeed the source of these > violations. > > Now however, the fact that allwinner posted this very clearly shows that > Allwinner is the source. It is absolutely unequivocal this time round. > > To top this off, it is 6 months after the last GPL violation shitstorm. > This puts serious doubts behind the claims that Allwinner truly is > learning and willing to cooperate. > > Allwinner, it is very high time to start playing nice. You've been at it > for 4 years now and seem utterly incapable of or unwilling to change. > > 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.
