> Hi Trey, > > > We are making a BLE only product for embedded system and cannot use > the whole bluez package due to lack of resources. We noticed that the BLE > specific code (src/shared) is licensed under LGPL and we are trying to > leverage the code as a shared library for our proprietary source BLE > application, similar to btgatt-server tool. While compiling, we noticed the > LPGL code has a dependency with the following header and source files > which are licensed as GPL. > > > > lib/bluetooth.h > > lib/hci.h > > lib/mgmt..h > > lib/uuid.c > > lib/uuid.h > > src/shared/ad.c > > src/shared/ad.h > > > > Are there plans to make the above files LGPL or LGPL compatible? > > the src/shared/ad.[ch] is actually a mistake. No code under GPL should have > been accepted into src/shared/ directory. That code is intentionally kept > LGPL only. > > > Are there any plans in the future to remove the GPL dependencies from > the LGPL code? > > The lib/uuid.[ch] is pretty old code and not really nicely abstracted in the first > place. However it has been used to speed up the development of the GATT > support. The plan is actually to replace that with a new implementation > src/shared/uuid.[ch] under LGPL that nicely integrates. > How soon will this happen? Do you need any help making this LGPL code? > The other three are just a bunch of defines or structs. However they are > kernel defines and structs and should be most likely come directly from the > kernel as UAPI. However we have never gotten around it to clean these up. > Some of this is part of the old libbluetooth (which is still internally required). > We are talking about 13 year old code here. > Do you mean that it is ok for us to use the lib/*.h files even though it's licensed as GPL? The kernel headers are not exactly the same and may not be able to compile with the bluez package. > Regards > > Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
