[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD usunov at olimex.com
Fri Jun 1 12:03:01 BST 2012


Olimex will be granted to access to Allwinner development git repositories 
if we sign NDA which do not allow us to share the sources with 3rd parties.

Now we are in stalemate situation if we want to develop the Linux support 
for A10-A13-OLinuXino we have to use the information on these repositories 
as the other documentation is incomplete, we spoted lot of errors on it (but 
we have been warned that there are errors anyway) and only these sources 
guarantee that we will not lose time while development, in other hand 
signing this NDA will make us GPL violator as we will not be able to release 
the BSP sources.

Any ideas? We are so smallish customer that we can't influence 
Allwinner/Wits on GPL at all. If we do not sign, they just do not allow us 
access and we are free to go somewhere else :-)

Tsvetan 




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