[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Alejandro Mery amery at geeks.cl
Fri Jun 1 20:04:37 BST 2012


On 01/06/12 20:52, Philip Hands wrote:
> Alejandro Mery<amery at geeks.cl>  writes:
>
>> On 01/06/12 20:26, Philip Hands wrote:
>>> Vladimir Pantelic<vladoman at gmail.com>   writes:
>>>
>>>> Philip Hands wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>> Imposing extra conditions on the distribution of a GPLed work (which I
>>>>> think a tweaked Linux kernel is very likely to be) is a violation of the
>>>>> terms of the GPL.
>>>>
>>>> I understood they supply only documentation under NDA, not code,
>>>
>>> Oh, in that case, forget what I said about GPL violations.
>>>
>>> Seems like a good idea to avoid all contact with that documentation
>>> though.
>>
>> actually it's the other way around, (incomplete) documention is handed
>> over on a DVD with the devkit and the NDA is for accessing the git
>> servers where the sources live.
>
> and the devkit includes an installed kernel built from those sources
> does it?  (or are they supplying it blank?)

I assume it comes preinstalled, but in this case Tsvetan received it 
*gracefully* after buying only 1k A10 SoCs. So still no binary linux or 
u-boot involved.



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