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<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:31:07 +0100<br>> From: luke.leighton@gmail.com<br>> To: arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation<br>> <br>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > cnxsoft wrote:<br>> >> On 01/06/2012 18:03, Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD wrote:<br>> >>> Olimex will be granted to access to Allwinner development git repositories<br>> >>> if we sign NDA which do not allow us to share the sources with 3rd parties.<br>> >>><br>> >>> Now we are in stalemate situation if we want to develop the Linux support<br>> >>> for A10-A13-OLinuXino we have to use the information on these repositories<br>> >>> as the other documentation is incomplete, we spoted lot of errors on it (but<br>> >>> we have been warned that there are errors anyway) and only these sources<br>> >>> guarantee that we will not lose time while development, in other hand<br>> >>> signing this NDA will make us GPL violator as we will not be able to release<br>> >>> the BSP sources.<br>> >>><br>> >>> Any ideas? We are so smallish customer that we can't influence<br>> >>> Allwinner/Wits on GPL at all. If we do not sign, they just do not allow us<br>> >>> access and we are free to go somewhere else :-)<br>> >>><br>> >>> Tsvetan<br>> >> Interesting. So if i understand correctly, they ask you to sign a<br>> >> legally binding document asking you to do something against the law.<br>> ><br>> > it is not against the law. if you sign that NDA, you cannot release the<br>> > code under the GPL, thus you cannot release a product.<br>> <br>> ... and AllwinnerTech lose their right to distribute the code under<br>> the GPL for violating the GPL license, because forcing people to sign<br>> NDAs in order to receive GPL source code is itself not permitted under<br>> the terms and conditions of the GPL.<br>> <br>> that basically puts their entire business in the shitter.<br>> <br>> when will these f*****g companies start to f*****g get it??<br>> <br><br>When companies stop buying products based on their SoCs. And I don't see that happening anytime soon, chinese market just doesn't care about it and a lot of western rebranders also don't care at all.<br></div> </div></body>
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