Re: [Trisquel-users] Is this Librem13 fully free this time?

[chris]

I think I was told AllWinner has all the rights if my recollection serves me  
right. They're releasing it to comply with the GPL license because its  
derived in some part from something licensed under it. This isn't an issue of  
"we want to do good" by AllWinner. It's an issue of complying with agreements  
(ie GNU GPL). Which means AllWinner isn't necessarily obligated to release  
everything (ie unconnected pieces) and they might not be able to do so in  
some cases (like any company). If there is some licensed component from  
another party (graphics for example?) they might not have the copyrights and  
whatever sublicense they have might prevent them from releasing any code for  
a given component. It's why Intel has released code for everything in  
relation to it's in-house designed graphics chips, but not one that was  
licensed from a third party (next gen stuff excluded, I'm not sure whats  
changed in the next-gen stuff that the decided not to release code, but it's  
likely related to digital restrictions or licensed components).