Dne čtvrtek 19. května 2022 10:45:04 CEST, Benjamin Berg napsal(a):
Hi,
On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 00:17 +0200, Lukáš Krejza wrote:
Dne čtvrtek 19. května 2022 0:04:06 CEST, Neal Gompa napsal(a):
The original plan was to do that, but since it has not been the case yet (and it is already some time that this fork exist), distributions started to switch to this one for the time being. It does not seem that this fork will merge back to mainline anytime soon, so we are just following general "trend" of other distros to support more use-cases and hardware for the users. There never was a plan to merge the TOD branch back into libfprint upstream.
For any driver that is open source, we are or course happy to work with the developers to integrate it into upstream libfprint.
The TOD branch exists to enable non-free code to be loaded (into the GPL'ed fprintd binary). There are good reasons for me to accept that this is happening and I have little power to do anything against it. However, I hope that there is no false impression that upstream libfprint is condoning the existence of the TOD branch and non-free drivers in particular.
Also, the mainline devs are actively solving bugs reported by users using the "-tod" fork, as you can see for example here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/436 .
Not really. The TOD fork just adds an extra feature that allows side loading more code. It makes little sense to ignore valid bug reports for the main library. Doing so would be detrimental to everyone, including users of upstream libfprint.
All I am doing in that bug is not actively sabotaging users of the TOD fork as there is a benefit to everyone.
Also, developers themselves are pointing users to the fork, as you can see here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/267
People wear multiple hats, so the line can be blurry. The person posting the link contributed the goodixmoc driver, and is likely also involved with the non-free goodix driver that appears to exists for other chipsets.
I didn't delete the reference. But I also don't feel that the discussion there gives the impression that upstream is condoning the existence of the TOD branch and loading non-free code.
Benjamin
Thank you Benjamin for explaining your opinion about the situation and clearing it out further. I have contacted board and asked for their decision, they should have also ability to contact SUSE legal team, if required. Regards, Gryffus