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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
The 3D and DSP drivers for the Pandora were released today from TI. There's a link on the (unofficial) OpenPandora Blog (you need an account with TI to download them).

I know, it's a different processor and a different architecture, but this at least proves that the holdback for the drivers is not TI, as we were at one time led to believe by some.
It doesn't prove anything of the sort; we've already known for a long time that TI was being open with OMAP3, but that doesn't imply that they can or will change licenses on already released products, so it says nothing about whose lawyers are the problem with various OMAP2 drivers.

There are costs associated with going back through and making sure all IP involved belongs to TI, or relicensing under appropriate terms from the actual owners, so it's quite conceivable that they would change their position for future releases (and license IP suitably up front) but not find it worth the cost to redo old stuff.
 

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