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Comment # 1
on bug 106625
from Daniel Stone
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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