Re: [RFC][WIP] IEEE 802.15.4 implementation for Linux v1

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Dmitry
Eremin-Solenikov<dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As a part of research activities the Embedded Systems - Open Platform Group
> from Siemens Corporate Technology we are working on adding support for
> the IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Personal Area Networks to the Linux. Our current
> implementation is neither certified nor even feature complete. However
> we'd like to present current state of our patchset to the Linux developers
> community to gain comments, fixes, ideas, etc. This is not yet a pull request,
> but more like an RFC.
>
> The project page is available at http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/linux-zigbee
> with source code of kernel part available from git at
> http://zigbee-linux.git.sourceforge.net, mirrored for convenience at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lumag/lowpan.git
>
> The source code for userspace utils is available from git at
> http://linux-zigbee.git.sourceforge.net/

The Zigbee alliance requires a minimum of $3,500/yr from any company
making a product based on the spec. How are you going to reconcile
this requirement with the GPL? They exempt non-commercial users but
the GPL doesn't allow code to be free for one purpose and pay for
another.

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Jon Smirl
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