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.
