On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 3:19:54 PM UTC+3, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a month since Allwinners big "open source" release, where they > tried to shut up the big (and very justified) GPL violations noise by > releasing some code which moves decoder codecs into modules, and by > releasing some codecs as open source as well. As i predicted then, > Allwinner now has taken the next step: > > They produced a binary for the decoder, which is loaded in: > https://github.com/allwinner-zh/media-codec/blob/72f2b8537/sunxi-cedarx/SOURCE/vencoder/venc_device.c > > Note the "Proprietary" license notice on top of this and other new > files. > > Even if we ignore the past, all of this is built together with LGPLed > code, and the binary is being dlopened into this LGPLed code. Quite > illegally so. > > This is further deliberate avoidance of responsibility by Allwinner. One > can only assume that Allwinner is incorrigible at this point. They have > been told time and time again what is wrong and they have time and time > again been given possible ways out, in great detail. All we get though, > is microsteps to take off the heat, followed by further deliberate > breaking/bending of the rules. > > This also sheds a further shadow on the C.H.I.P. project. Clearly the > Next Thing Co. guys were very gullible when they went into business with > Allwinner (and believed the statements made by allwinner). Later during > the run of the kickstarter campaign, after all the noise had been made > on the internet about GPL Violations, Next Thing Co. loudly claimed that > they are working the Free Electrons and that all promises of open > sourceness and such would be kept (all?). While this move in itself was > very laudable, it did underline the fact that Next Thing Co. had not > done its homework beforehand. Now Allwinner does this, which clearly > goes in against everything the Next Thing Co. people have promised us so > far... > > Allwinner has some explaining to do (as does Next Thing Co, to a lesser > extent). > > Luc Verhaegen.
== OFFTOPIC: == It is obvious after all this years that Allwinner are nothing more than Software Pirates. Years ago I was very naive hoping that the rise of these Chinese ARM chip manufacturers would prevent Intel from taking over the embedded industry also. But because of their unlimited level of incompetency, unfortunately Intel has already won even before the war has started. You can't really expect a company with a thieves mindset to get the big picture and make smart decisions they are always looking to make a quick buck. -- 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.
