[Sheflug] RaspberryPi Drivers Made Available under a BSD

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

RaspberryPi drivers made available under a BSD license ...

"  As of right now, all of the VideoCore driver code which runs on the 
ARM is available under a FOSS license (3-Clause BSD to be precise). 
The source is available from our newuserland repository on GitHub. If 
youâre not familiar with the status of open source drivers on ARM SoCs 
this announcement may not seem like such a big deal, but it does 
actually mean that the BCM2835 used in the Raspberry Pi is the first 
ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully-functional, vendor-provided (as 
opposed to partial, reverse engineered) fully open-source drivers, and 
that Broadcom is the first vendor to open their mobile GPU drivers up 
in this way. We at the Raspberry Pi Foundation hope to see others 
follow. "

-- 
Richard

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