From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91F349D for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (down.free-electrons.com [37.187.137.238]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAF912F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:24:26 +0200 From: Maxime Ripard To: Greg KH Message-ID: <20160829112426.GE7612@lukather> References: <20160826193331.GA29084@jra3> <87inunxf14.fsf@ebb.org> <20160827162655.GB27132@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160827162655.GB27132@kroah.com> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Linus Torvalds , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Greg, On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 06:26:55PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > Someone in a reddit thread about this email conversation said, in trying > to quote Linus, something along the lines of "the nuclear option should > have been done to Allwinner a long time ago". And that proved my point > exactly. Allwinner was a pain for a very long time. But as developers, > and through the efforts of a lot of people at the Linux Foundation and > Linaro, Allwinner is now a contributor to the kernel, and actively > sponsors developers to write GPLv2 code for their chips. While I generally agree with you on this topic, this is simply not true. As the Allwinner SoC maintainer, I never received any patch from someone either from the Linux Foundation or Linaro. And to the best of my knowledge, I'm not aware of anyone being paid by Allwinner to work on the kernel. Allwinner is not a pain anymore because a few hobbyists started working on the kernel to improve the situation. Maxime --=20 Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXxBtqAAoJEBx+YmzsjxAgLKgP/jjggqOQ0Fl1AS5yKyTUXCJj dcUXIm2xvJHtA9JER4fgUJ8hAutN8BO6q5N0DqcWfgCrJtI0HKxi9yAxjIqvmxm1 zOjxJHWuCSSv1eBPI/5EaJikzpLch8fcvxqOM87QT2K/hc6QwiQTJanWUnRAqXHs lqfYd9E557kYoUgx5QOR1lVLt05th88gGMGo+IQtPQ8Ij7cnDPNFALTtF5yqUIHW 5WsKF2/wDVThQXrwLR8h5gVUp5K4rv9F756K06k8iX4OI8yfMh1go5jwaLAUQlxn hK95sW3eO4lBC9ZaGUjPxCfNab99FBKsSEy2Sp8Uw7qU49B9e2Wpi5kWp3rE0WSh pSEyiV40PDHpQqCYIf0wBTyVw3+TcMBHmn5L7w3I9b+fzhuPwg7a3incQTCHkCzc 4biIGShnh5jnqZCo5afIEIajiWOkDsm4JsDSFd+cUFKMQRSGprD37VOBT/YXYAlD DBQmIder/k6GKqzr2x99/zzen0Olq2fhKsxmwmAOhulWVeWg8R3xtuiqQxmXmmp4 XdhB9DJIX+n2Oh2qNw/dZSQs0yedtD0h0QQwTCBjOAUlHuWNKx0y69SXS6IQH/pa 992XMGfiXfY4xF7S0veVNaRU3FE0ctVdXgqXJeWf4CKHqfwVZlo6rrvdtuh5yTX/ H4KRFWDJ2hf55DD5nqpL =yyBG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe--