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

[martin brook]

Not just OEM's Ken, Tesco in the UK have a rockchip based tablet out now
(the Hudl) and so far I've had no response from them when asking about GPL
source code.


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ken Phillis Jr <kphillisjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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