On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jon Smirl<jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Dmitry > Eremin-Solenikov<dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx> 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 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. > For now, we do not release any ZigBee implementation. BTW - could you refer to particular clause of GPL, which doesn't allow user to pay for code? Regards, Maxim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
