On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM Armin Wolf <w_ar...@gmx.de> 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!

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