[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 14:51:23 BST 2012


Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD 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 :-)

They want the NDA only for A13 code? or for A10 *and* A13?



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