On 26 March 2015 at 14:32, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 03:23:33PM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote: >> > >> > It never ends up pretty when warmongers have their way. Just look at >> > how much shit is happening in the world :-( >> > >> > >> +1 >> >> Simos > > Amazing. The guy who quotes The Art of War all the time, and who needed > very little time to call for a fork or to have people banished, backs > that one up... > > Simos, you claim that you are Allwinners conduit into linux-sunxi all > the time, even though i and many other linux-sunxi community members > fail to see what basis you have for such claims. Let's for the sake of > argument assume that such would be the case. That makes you fully > responsible for Allwinners failures to comply with the (L)GPL, for > Allwinner not understanding the most basic principles of free software, > for Allwinners unerring ability to continue to piss off the linux-sunxi > community and the linux community as a whole. And that's before counting > in the fact that you have, amazingly, been trying to downplay the > obligations of the (L)GPL all along. > > This Allwinner shit is on you too. Big time. >
Talking about shit .. why are we even having this shitty debate in the first place? The letter of the LGPL is that modified version has to be released in source when distributed. However, the reason why LGPL exists or the spirit of the license is to keep software usable. So with Cedar libraries in particular we have usable opensource implementation and Allwinner releasing the source for the Cedar lib has little practical impact if any at all. So I see the effort that goes into more and more obfuscated Cedar releases on AW side and effort that goes in proving that the more obfuscated releases are still technically infringing the copyright of the ffmpeg author(s) on linux-sunxi side completely wasted. Especially since on sunxi side there is no progress with the VE libraries we have - neither opensource nor closed. And as pointed out we did get usable license stamped on the memory initialization code which is actually useful. So while it is not nice that AW does release Cedar blobs we don't really need anything that is in those blobs at this moment so all this noise is quite uselessly tiring. Thanks Michal -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
