Hi Sascha, On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:41:20PM +0200, Sascha Herrmann wrote: > Hi, > > > Could it be related somehow to ZigBee lincense ? (http://www.zigbee.org/) > > Moreover, I saw in a lecture: > > http://elinux.org/images/7/71/Wireless_Networking_with_IEEE_802.15.4_and_6LoWPAN.pdf > > from 2012, by Alan Ott: > > Maybe you can get some more information about this issue from this > article: > http://www.freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/Zigbee/Zigbee-Linux-and-the-GPL.html > The author had started developing an OpenSource ZigBee Stack and was > Member of the ZA. If you dig somewhat deeper in his blog (I don't have > the exact url at hand), you will find an article where he describes that > he tried to start an discussion about removing the problematic part from > the ZigBee License, but failed with this approach. After this he stopped > the development of the stack and quit his ZA membership. > > If the information of this article holds, the ZigBee License is > incompatible with the Linux Kernel. >
and here comes the point to switch into a userspace application (if possible) to avoid license issues. I am not a big fan of that but we can see this in several other projects at the linux kernel like usbdevfs which allow to write userspace usb drivers which are not under GPL. My basic message is to say "it is possible", but we can't do anything with that. Maybe it helps us to make a better userspace api. :-) - Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Linux-zigbee-devel mailing list Linux-zigbee-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-zigbee-devel
