[rickdeckard]

As a Member of HDMI-Forum AMD would surely break its Forum Membership contract by open-sourcing their implementation of a specification restricted to Members.

Also, "HDMI" itself is a trademark with usage only allowed to its Members (like "Wi-Fi"), so even if a non-Member would do an open-source HDMI-implementation against the will of the HDMI-Forum, he would likely not be allowed to call it "HDMI" (like "WLAN" is used by companies without Wi-Fi Alliance Membership)

[quickthrower2]

That is a small hurdle. Just come up with a name. HD driver? If that is too close then something else. End of the day call it bollocks and since you are using hardware detection anyway who cares.

[realusername]

It would be possible to argue that both these terms are generic enough that the trademark lost its meaning, it wouldn't be the first time.

WiFi is pretty much there already

[mcv]

Yeah, I think someone other than them would have to write that driver. But it's possible nobody who has the freedom to do so, has the knowledge to do so.