[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

[Enrico]

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 :-)

If this A10/A13 project is not vital for you then don't sign and trash
Allwinner, as others said there are many other interesting platforms
out there.

The reason is simple: if you sign you are alone, and i don't think
your project included costs for kernel development.

Anyway this is something that should be addressed at "higher levels",
this kind of behaviour is not acceptable anymore.

Enrico