Re: [Bluez-users] Linking to BlueZ from non-GPL code

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Marco,

>  > but a technical solution is to write a
> > GPL shim that links with -lbluetooth and that you use via APIs across 
> > which the GPL is not required to hold. Again, talk to your lawyer.
> 
> can you explain that further? as I understand it:
> write an own library that includes the bluez .h files and links agains 
> -lbluetooth
> -> so the own library has to be gpl too
> include the own library (.h file(s)) in the not gpl program
> but because the own library is gpl and you include it again, you program 
> still has to be gpl, right?
> the only difference is that you haven't to link against -lbluetooth. but 
> the header files are gpl too.

you go through a self defined Unix Socket API or D-Bus API. Then you
only have to make the shim layer (the daemon) available under GPL.

Regards

Marcel




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