On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Peter Naulls <pet...@candicontrols.com> wrote: > On 12/14/2011 03:00 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Peter Naulls<pet...@candicontrols.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/14/2011 02:43 PM, jonsm...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> You do know there is no Zigbee stack here, right? >>>> >>> >>> No, I don't know that. I don't know what this means. That's >>> why I asked my questions in the first place. All I know >>> is that there's a bunch of tools that relate to zigbee, >>> and incidentally, those might be useful in OpenWrt. >> >> >> The Zigbee Alliance's protocol license is GPL incompatible. They have >> been asked to fix it many times and won't. The simplest way to get >> Zigbee support on Linux is to buy a USB stick with an embedded SOC >> running proprietary code and interface to it. > > > Understood. As you may recall from my first post, we will in fact > be interfacing to both a USB stick, and a serial interfaced device, > which I presume are both such SoCs. But what talks to those - > the tools hosted by this project?
No, this project treats SOC sticks as dumb devices. The protocol stack is run inside the Linux kernel. Talk to the proprietary vendors about interfacing to their proprietary stacks. We've all decide to go with 6lowpan/ROLL which is a truly open standard. I'm ignoring proprietary Zigbee and Zwave. NIST has said the US government is going to use 6lowpan/ROLL. And Cisco is the major backer. > > >> If OpenZware is reimplementing Zwave I hope the licenses are in order. >> I'm pretty skeptical that the Zware protocol has been licensed GPL >> compatible. > > > The OpenZWave implementation is completely clean-room. Beyond that, > I'd prefer not to speculate further. Cleanroom doesn't removes licensing restriction placed on a specification like is the case with Zigbee. If you have to agree to a license to get a copy of the Zwave spec it probably has similar problems. >> Here is an open source Zigbee implementation: >> http://freaklabs.org/index.php/FreakZ-Open-Source-Zigbee-Stack.html >> >> The problem with it is that you can't ship it without paying money to >> the Zigbee Alliance. > > Noted. But FreakZ seems to be stale. Not a lot of fun working on something that you want to give away but then having to tell everyone that they are required to send checks to the Zigbee Alliance if they want to use it. He was unaware of this restriction when the stack was first written. > -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 Tips for Better Server Consolidation Server virtualization is being driven by many needs. But none more important than the need to reduce IT complexity while improving strategic productivity. Learn More! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51507609/ _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
