On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Sadly the HDMI forum only provides the HDMI specification under a special license which > prohibits implementing it in open source drivers. > > Since membership inside the HDMI forum costs 15000$ annually, i suspect that the HDMI forum > is abusing its power to force people to join (and pay). > > I can feel your disappointment, but there is nothing we can do which does not land us in court :(. Let's hope this will change for the HDMI 2.1 specification when the HDMI 2.2 specification is released. After all, I already do have a software driver that supports HDMI upto version 2.0 (September 2013). It's not like HDMI is entirely unsupported. Thanks!
