Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
Summary
Phoronix reports that Synaptics used a cease-and-desist and legal threats to block the Vino open-source DisplayLink driver, a Rust-based reverse-engineered project. The GitHub repository was taken down, and the open-source driver appears unlikely to be upstreamed, highlighting tensions between intellectual property rights and open-source hardware support in Linux.