[Bug 106625] GPL Request: Where is AMD's patch for libomxil-bellagio / gst-plugins-omx to support HEVC decode?

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Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> ---
Bellagio (and Mesa generally) are not licensed under the GPL, but under the
MIT/BSD family of licenses. These licenses have no obligation at all for source
release: everyone is free to form the code, ship binaries, and never provide
source.

Additionally, the GPL's requirements on producing source are very specific: you
are only entitled to receive the source to GPL-licensed code, if you have also
received binaries. It is totally fine to fork a GPL project and never release
code to anyone, if you don't distribute binaries. It is also totally fine to
distribute the binaries to a limited audience, only give the source to them if
they ask for it, and never give the source to anyone else. There is no kind of
requirement for all source to always be universally available.

So for this to be enforceable under the GPL: AMD would need to have definitely
written the code (it is not clear if this has even happened), and distributed
binaries built from it (it seems clear this has not happened), and the code
would need to be under (L)GPL (it isn't).

I'm afraid this isn't an actionable legal request on those grounds, but good
luck with your quest for HEVC support.

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