AllwinnerGPL_Violations
AllwinnerhasrepeatedlyviolatedtheGPL(andbyproxysohavemosthardware
manufacturersandresellersusingorsellingproductsbasedonAllwinnerchipsets).Eitherby
notproviding(Linux/Android)kerneloru-bootsourceatall,orbydeliveringtreeswithpre-
builtbinariesandnomatchingsourcecode.TheyevenblatantlyuseLGPLlicensedcodein
theiruserspacelibrariesformediadecoding.
Overtime,Allwinnerhasonlyincreasedthebinaryblobspresentintheirkerneltrees,
showingclearlythat-eventhoughAllwinnerinthemeantimejoinedLinaro-itisnot
progressing.Quitetheoppositeactually,andonehastoworryaboutwhatvalueLinaro
membershipreallyhasifamemberisallowedtobehavelikethis.Allwinneralsojoinedthe
LinuxFoundationasofJune2015,whilecomplianceissuesclearlyremain.
http://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations