[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Jun 1 22:08:54 BST 2012


On 01/06/2012 22:03, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 11:02 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
>> fre 2012-06-01 klockan 22:49 +0200 skrev Vladimir Pantelic:
>
>> In the Allwinner/Olimex relation Olimex is a customer, using their
>> information to build a Olimex product. The NDA as written to not give
>> Olimex the rights needed for developing a product that can be sold.
>
> as said, don't sign it and walk away. Don't bother arguing if it's
> a possible GPL violation, suing your SoC vendor won't help even if you
> win...

And this is why cheap SoCs aren't actually cheap and Marvell and TI SoCs 
are excellent value despite costing a lot more.

Gordan



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