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Does this accomplish anything? Was anyone actually relying on this? I'd say the company was just doing it just to publish it, but I've known developers who would certainly use the public repo as the primary copy.
I believe it does. Weakly reciprocal license like LGPL is not equivalent as a permissive license like Apache. I see two main things on the top of my head:
On top of this, it really should not be complicated to license this code properly (unless rockchip wants to allow point 1, which is illegal)