fre 2015-06-26 klockan 01:12 +1000 skrev Julian Calaby:
> 
> It's obvious what is required:
> 1. Datasheets
> 2. Programming manuals
> 3. GPL compliant drivers
> 4. (L)GPL compliant userspace stuff

> and maybe
> 
> 5. Some on-going contribution to the community

And

6. That community uses and improves the free alternatives developed by
the community instead of encouraging further bad actions in paths that
is unlikely to ever result in anything meeting the broad community
goals.

> They have #1 and #2 but aren't bothering to release them to us.

I honestly do not believe they have any better manuals or datasheets
than released. They have tons of other internal information (notes, CPU
source code, talking with the person who wrote the CPU parts, etc)

> I believe most of the documentation we have has been obtained through
> third parties.

In past yes kind of.. but now we have 
https://github.com/allwinner-zh/documents/


> #3 is almost happening, but with just about every code
> release, there's something in there violating the licence.

Community have also come very far in making clean GPL drivers for most
components, including CedarX.

> We're
> arguing over their lack of ability on #4 and their employees (with 
> the
> possible exception of Kevin, who pops up every so often to announce
> something) are absent from the community. This isn't hard, there are
> thousands of companies doing it.

No, we are arguing over AW repeatedly doing the same licensing
mistakes.

Absense from the community is not strange. From a community perspective
it would be very desireable that AW employees were more active in the
community, but I fully understand that this is not an easy task to
accomplish. Most AW employees have access to internal information, and
likely bound by restrictions in both contract and cultural difference.

Regards
Henrik

-- 
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.

Reply via email to