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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Using BlueZ
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:49:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165780166.11292.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FA9D595-36DD-4499-92B1-7C7080955B55@mac.com>

Hi Brian,

> >> I would like to know if its possible to use the BlueZ stack with
> >> something that has a GPL incompatible license?  i.e. MPL?  I noticed
> >> that its GPL licensed which limits its usage with such projects.  Any
> >> alternatives?
> >
> > if you have to link against the Bluetooth library, then the answer is
> > no. If you only use the D-Bus interface of BlueZ, then you link  
> > against
> > the D-Bus library and this one is LGPL, so that is no problem. However
> > you should always double check with "ldd" what libraries are actually
> > linked in or if you include header files from "bluetooth/*.h". Make  
> > sure
> > you don't link against the Bluetooth library and you are good.
>
> Do you loose any functionality vis D-Bus?

depends on what you need to do. Describe your use case and I might be
able to tell you.

Regards

Marcel



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-10 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08 16:32 [Bluez-devel] Using BlueZ Brian West
2006-12-10 12:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-12-10 19:03   ` Brian West
2006-12-10 19:49     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-12-10 19:52       ` Brian West

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