On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tom Isaacson wrote:
I've been looking around for an open source library that provides USB
HID support across Win32, Linux and OS X and libhid seems to fit the
bill, but the GPL is a bit of a problem. I went to look at the MGE
webpage for their HID Parser
(http://www.mgeups.com/opensource/projects/hidparser.htm) and I get a
message saying they were merged with another company and the website
is
now www.apc.com. I can't find any reference on here to the HID
Parser or
open source projects in general. Does this mean they still own it?
I am CCing Arnaud - it may be considered property of MGE Office
Protection Systems, which is now part of Eaton.
Is the GPL in place?
In any event, yes, the libhid code is all GPL'd.
Assuming it is, what happened to the plans to rewrite the HID parser?
Was any work done on this or is it wide open?
This effort has stalled, partly because the main consumer of the
libhid project, Network UPS Tools, is GPL'd anyway, and happily using
an older version of the HID parser code.
On a different note, I originally found libhid on SourceForge but the
CVS repository there doesn't contain any code. Is this a completely
different project or was it an attempt to use a different repository?
Looks like a completely different project.
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