Hi
sorry, david, but what you wrote is very unclear. for example: none of us know whom you're working for: your message gives the [probably quite wrong!] impression that you are working for allwinner.
This impression is correct. I was over there for my job interview and I'm waiting right now for my work permit in order to settle down over in Zhuhai at Allwinners headquarter in my office there.
apologies this is also unclear.
Actually not. I just explained that there are certain processes about other costumers (not the western ones) which prevent us internally from just jumping "yeah! let's just publish all our code! flower-power-olé!"
so... are *you* using (and shipping) illegal license-violating binaries to "customers in China" [with some LGPL wrapper]? or is that a position statement of Allwinner, is it a position statement from the SDK developers in allwinner? sorry i have to ask because you didn't say, it's very very unclear.
... i have to warn you: if *you* are using (and shipping) illegal license-violating binaries - even with an LGPL wrapper - then you are *still* also in violation of the GPL license. and, to protect yourself (from knowingly and criminally infringing Copyright) you should cease and desist from shipping those binaries immediately, *regardless* of the consequences for your customers.
perhaps you might like to clarify matters, i apologise but i really did not understand who was represented by each of the statements that you made. it might be a good idea to re-post the entire message, clarifying the context of whom "we" is, what "the decision" is, and so on.
We are well aware of all the points you mentioned. We already removed VP6 from our binaries and are replacing it with ffmpeg within our wrapper library... that's why we restructure the repository right now...
Cheers David