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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by tener on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:32AM (#39560159)
What is stopping AMD from distributing a closed source binary blob along with selling the access to proprietary source code for $1?
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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by dagw on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:40AM (#39560199)
The source code is not a clean room re-implementation of the the HDMI 2.1 spec and as such contains IP owned in one way or another by the HDMI Forum. This would almost certainly preclude them from distributing source code to non HDMI Forum members under any license according to what I could glean from the article.
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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver by tener on Friday March 01, 2024 @06:55AM (#39560915)
Ah, thank you, this is interesting. So in a way the original IP is kind of poison which forever taints their source code, diminishing what they can do with it.
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