[Arm-netbook] Chinese SoC vendor striving for world domination? Show your GPL loyalty page or get out of business!

[Ken Phillis Jr]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I don't know if other folks noticed that already, but by now almost all
> Chinese ARM SoC vendors (targetting mass consumer market) put up some
> kind of "GPL/FOSS loyalty" page - and sources. I specifically call that
> "GPL loyalty" because as we know, there's some road ahead (maybe long)
> before it's "GPL compliance". Good news that some go beyond just GPL
> and provide Android sources, etc.
>
> It's yet to be seen how actually that useful technically as of now, but
> the talk about the outlook change. I'm sure that some of the vendors
> below did that because others did it. So, it looks like it gets
> self-sustaining, as put in subj: people come to you, and in
> quick chit-chat ask where's you GPL page, and if you say "nowhere", you
> get that strange look and people move to other booths, because
> Allwinner, Rockchip and everyone has it, and if you don't get that
> simple license thing, how you can actually hack on kernel and produce
> value?
>
> The list is:
>
> Telechips
>
> https://www.telechips.com/technical_support/kor/opensource/opensource_list.asp
> Rockhip
> http://git.linux-rockchip.org/public/
> Allwinner
> http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/awt/news/2013-04-23.html
> Amlogic
> http://openlinux.amlogic.com/
> VIA/WondermediaLinux on small ARM machines
> <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
> http://apc.io/library/
>
> Rest of rant is here:
>
> http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2013/10/growing-gplfoss-loyalty-among-chinese.html
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com


This is actually good news, but The problem still exists that the OEM's
that use these SoC's often fail to produce gpl source in a timely manner.
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