> Hi, > > +Marie > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > >> 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? > > I guess we need to consent of the authors to change the ad.c. > > @Marie: Do you agree to change to LGPL (I suppose this was a mistake in the > first place)? If you do, could you please send a patch to changing it? We also need uuid.[ch] Hi Marcel, How soon will it be to replace lib/uuid.[ch] with the LGPL implementations in src/shared/uuid[ch]? > > >> 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 > > > > -- > Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- 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
