[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

[Alejandro Mery]

On 1 June 2012 13:31, Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD
> <usunov at olimex.com> wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>
> Get access to the source first, after that it is just a matter of
> establishing where the "infringement" is.

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