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

[Fredy P <digitalfredy@debiancolombia.org>]

El mi=E9, 01-06-2005 a las 23:44 +0200, Marcel Holtmann escribi=F3:
> Hi Trevor,
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> > I have a question about linking non-GPL code to BlueZ.  This is
> > very much along the lines of the previous conversation at=20
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/2444 -- the quick
> > summary of which is:=20
> > =20
> > Marcel: Date: 2004-06-28 14:48:48 GMT: "For the BlueZ library and the
> > utilities we can talk about it. Some time ago people asked for a LGPL
> > version of the library and actually I tend to agree with that. However
> > this can't be decided by me alone, because part of the code is copyrigh=
t
> > by Qualcomm and also by Maxim Krasnyansky himself. For the utilities I
> > don't see any need for a different license. I believe in the GPL and
> > from my view releasing the Linux Bluetooth library under LGPL is the
> > only step I wanna make forward to allow closed source products based on
> > BlueZ."
> >=20
> > Is this still the current status of GPL/LGPL for the BlueZ libraries
> > (libbluetooth.so) -- or has there been an update (I haven't found
> > anything more recent on the mailing list about this).
>=20
> nothing has changed at the moment. Ask Max for an update of changing the
> BlueZ library from GPL to LGPL.

For the free software and open source interest is not good idea change
GPL to LGPL, can read this:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
>=20
> > What is the recommended way to write a non-GPL application on top of
> > BlueZ, or is this not currently allowed...? My understanding is that it
> > is OK to use the linux kernel syscall interface from non-GPL code, but
> > that this would not extend to libbluetooth.so...
>=20
> Actually I disagree with the non-GPL use of the syscall interface, but I
> am not lawyer. From my understanding all the bluetooth/*.h include files
> are GPL and you need them for your application. You can't replace them
> without ending up in derived work.
>=20
> Regards
>=20
> Marcel
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