[PATCH RFC 0/2] Add a display driver to the Allwinner H3

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Feb 2 08:58:33 PST 2016


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:49:07AM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:18:27 +0100
> Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Then, the DE2 sources contain only:
> > > 
> > > 	All Winner Tech, All Right Reserved. 2014-2015 Copyright (c)
> > > 
> > > Eventually, there is no copyright/author/history in the HDMI sources.
> > 
> > That one is nasty though :/
> > 
> > It seems to be a GPL violation though, so we have two solutions:
> > 
> > A) have a clean room implementation
> > B) Ask allwinner to comply with the license
> > 
> > The former doesn't look likely to happen soon... Can you open an issue
> > on this on their linux github repo?
> 
> Do you really think that I could have more luck than people of the
> linux-sunxi or pine64 teams?

It did work for a few issues in the past...

Maxime

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