Banana Pi BPI-M2+ - Allwinner Gpl_Violations

AllwinnerGPL_Violations
AllwinnerhasrepeatedlyviolatedtheGPL(andbyproxysohavemosthardwaremanufacturersandresellersusingor
sellingproductsbasedonAllwinnerchipsets).Eitherbynotproviding(Linux/Android)kerneloru-bootsourceatall,orby
deliveringtreeswithpre-builtbinariesandnomatchingsourcecode.TheyevenblatantlyuseLGPLlicensedcodeintheir
userspacelibrariesformediadecoding.
Overtime,Allwinnerhasonlyincreasedthebinaryblobspresentintheirkerneltrees,showingclearlythat-eventhough
AllwinnerinthemeantimejoinedLinaro-itisnotprogressing.Quitetheoppositeactually,andonehastoworryaboutwhat
valueLinaromembershipreallyhasifamemberisallowedtobehavelikethis.AllwinneralsojoinedtheLinuxFoundation
asofJune2015,whilecomplianceissuesclearlyremain.
http://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations
AllwinnerGPL_Violations
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