[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“It seems that VIA still didn’t unterstand the philosophy of
open source or lets say it looks like that they just used it as an
marketing instrument (just take a look at the world wide news
coverage after they made their Linux drivers open source).
Yesterday I got a mail from the unichrome mailing list, that
says:“The license in the newly released (11th March) source code has
reverted to the old proprietary license…”
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