Julian, I agree with your stance. Thanks for clarifying the issue.
Just a side note: Can I expect any help from the community if my project 'does' involve circumventing the encryption/proprietary restrictions and no laws are being broken? Regards On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 7:44:51 PM UTC+5:30, Julian Calaby wrote: > > Hi Amitoj, > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Amitoj Cheema <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Stefan, > > > > I'm not sure if I understand your argument on freedom-denying code. I'm > not > > intending to violate any licence (Ex. GPL which incidentally libhdcp > does > > violate for A80 soc). Neither am I trying to distribute binary drivers. > Even > > the HDCP algorithm is open, just that the keys are not intended to be > > public. The only problem is the 3rd party requirement that proprietary > video > > content(which is already encrypted at source) should be transmitted > further > > only in encrypted form. How is that a denial for freedom? Surely, you > are > > not saying that proprietary content should never be transmitted using > any > > open source product. > > It's a philosophical argument against HDCP in general - most "open > source" people, myself included, are against any form of encrypting, > encoding or denying access to content, particularly if one has already > paid for it. We understand your requirements, we just don't agree with > them. > > Seriously though, we most likely cannot help you with this - even if > we did understand the HDCP parts of the HDMI components, we can't test > it without keys, which we don't have, and have no interest in adding > it to the driver as it already works. > > You're best off either asking Allwinner directly or convincing the > people providing the content to drop that requirement. > > Thanks, > > -- > Julian Calaby > > Email: [email protected] <javascript:> > Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ > -- 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.
