[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Alejandro Mery amery at geeks.cl
Fri Jun 1 14:53:18 BST 2012


On 1 June 2012 15:51, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD wrote:
>> Olimex will be granted to access to Allwinner development git repositories
>> if we sign NDA which do not allow us to share the sources with 3rd parties.
>>
>> Now we are in stalemate situation if we want to develop the Linux support
>> for A10-A13-OLinuXino we have to use the information on these repositories
>> as the other documentation is incomplete, we spoted lot of errors on it (but
>> we have been warned that there are errors anyway) and only these sources
>> guarantee that we will not lose time while development, in other hand
>> signing this NDA will make us GPL violator as we will not be able to release
>> the BSP sources.
>>
>> Any ideas? We are so smallish customer that we can't influence
>> Allwinner/Wits on GPL at all. If we do not sign, they just do not allow us
>> access and we are free to go somewhere else :-)
>
> They want the NDA only for A13 code? or for A10 *and* A13?

any code, the DVD only includes documentation.



More information about the arm-netbook mailing list