<div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ken Phillis Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kphillisjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">kphillisjr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmiscml@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I don't know if other folks noticed that already, but by now almost all<br>
Chinese ARM SoC vendors (targetting mass consumer market) put up some<br>
kind of "GPL/FOSS loyalty" page - and sources. I specifically call that<br>
"GPL loyalty" because as we know, there's some road ahead (maybe long)<br>
before it's "GPL compliance". Good news that some go beyond just GPL<br>
and provide Android sources, etc.<br>
<br>
It's yet to be seen how actually that useful technically as of now, but<br>
the talk about the outlook change. I'm sure that some of the vendors<br>
below did that because others did it. So, it looks like it gets<br>
self-sustaining, as put in subj: people come to you, and in<br>
quick chit-chat ask where's you GPL page, and if you say "nowhere", you<br>
get that strange look and people move to other booths, because<br>
Allwinner, Rockchip and everyone has it, and if you don't get that<br>
simple license thing, how you can actually hack on kernel and produce<br>
value?<br>
<br>
The list is:<br>
<br>
Telechips<br>
<a href="https://www.telechips.com/technical_support/kor/opensource/opensource_list.asp" target="_blank">https://www.telechips.com/technical_support/kor/opensource/opensource_list.asp</a><br>
Rockhip<br>
<a href="http://git.linux-rockchip.org/public/" target="_blank">http://git.linux-rockchip.org/public/</a><br>
Allwinner<br>
<a href="http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/awt/news/2013-04-23.html" target="_blank">http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/awt/news/2013-04-23.html</a><br>
Amlogic<br>
<a href="http://openlinux.amlogic.com/" target="_blank">http://openlinux.amlogic.com/</a><br>
VIA/WondermediaLinux on small ARM machines<br>
<<a href="mailto:arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank">arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk</a>><br>
<a href="http://apc.io/library/" target="_blank">http://apc.io/library/</a><br>
<br>
Rest of rant is here:<br>
<a href="http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2013/10/growing-gplfoss-loyalty-among-chinese.html" target="_blank">http://pfalcon-oe.blogspot.com/2013/10/growing-gplfoss-loyalty-among-chinese.html</a><br>
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--<br>
Best regards,<br>
Paul mailto:<a href="mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmiscml@gmail.com</a></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>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. <br>
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