[Bluez-devel] Bluez without libbluez?

[Bluez-devel] Bluez without libbluez?

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Hi,

Is there anyone who wrote a library or application using the Bluez
kernel layer without linking to libbluez out there? I have been starting
to write a C++ wrapper as part of a library that's supposed to be
licensed under LGPL which means I can't look nor link nor even take part
of the code of libbluez (which is GPL).

However, I didn't find any documentation that does teaches how to do
that.

As a side note, I'm wondering how libkdebluetooth and Gnome's libbtctl
can claim that they're LGPL while linking to libbluez.

Maybe I'm confused :)

Thanks for reading,

Mickey.



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Re: [Bluez-devel] Bluez without libbluez?

[Fred Schaettgen]

On Friday, 15. July 2005 21:38, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
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> As a side note, I'm wondering how libkdebluetooth and Gnome's libbtctl
> can claim that they're LGPL while linking to libbluez.

libkbluetooth is GPLed or did I miss something?
libqobex on the other hand is in fact LGPLed. But libqobex alone as source=
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does not derive from or use the BlueZ libs. It does once you compile it,=20
which means that the resulting programs must be GPLed. Which they are. And=
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besides that I won=C2=B4t care about such details unless as german court co=
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on these linking issues. The outcome will be like throwing a dice anyway.

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=46red Schaettgen
bluez-devel@schaettgen.de


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Re: [Bluez-devel] Bluez without libbluez?

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Mickey,

> Is there anyone who wrote a library or application using the Bluez
> kernel layer without linking to libbluez out there? I have been starting
> to write a C++ wrapper as part of a library that's supposed to be
> licensed under LGPL which means I can't look nor link nor even take part
> of the code of libbluez (which is GPL).
> 
> However, I didn't find any documentation that does teaches how to do
> that.

and how do you think it is possible to write a library that uses a
kernel interface that is under GPL. We have the bdaddr_t and some other
socket structs that you need to copy. However ask a lawyer about these
legal things.

And btw the Bluetooth library will be re-released under LGPL if I get an
approval from Qualcomm.

Regards

Marcel




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