Alex Deucher:
The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
Alex Deucher:
The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
The big reason for HDMI's non-freeness is the use of on-protocol encryption. They learned from DeCSS, and the forum can't let it happen again.
I'm sure similar requirements stop DisplayPort and DVI from going open source.