[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

[Alejandro Mery]

On 01/06/12 16:01, Tom Cubie wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl
> <mailto:amery at geeks.cl>> wrote:
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>     On 01/06/12 14:25, Tom Cubie wrote:
>      > My advice is not develop the A13 kernel based what we already have.
>      > The kernel Qware released already contains the sun5i support. At the
>      > early stage of sun5i kernel development in Allwinner, sun4i and
>      > sun5i are in the same tree. Then one day, the market says no, we will
>      > not release the sun5i source code to our customers. Then sun5i is
>      > moved to a different branch.
>      >
>      > Via 8850 is out, which is a competitor of A13 and A10. pricing
>      > between A13 and A10, If you still limit the performance of A13 by not
>      > releasing the source code, then nobody will choose A13. So i think
>      > source code releasing a matter of time.
>
>     Hi Tom, please help me get wording right. do you mean we should:
>     1) forget about A13 until Allwinner releases their code, or
>     2) use the available sun5i code until Allwinner releases their code, or
>     3) forget about the locked code, and focus in improving what we already
>     have?
>
> I am just worried if you sign the NDA, you can not do any open source
> development on A10, A13. What we have now is a basic A13 kernel, I
> don't know if anyone tried this kernel on A13 hardware, but i believe
> it works, just some drivers are missing. Most drivers of A13 and A10
> are the same. Besides allwinner will probably release the source code
> of A13 in the future. So i think there is no need to sign a NDA.

Good for me. :)

What about your boss authorizing you to correct the wrong headers to 
make clear that all least all the sun4i code we have is GPL?