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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
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