Am Dienstag, 6. Juni 2006 09:43 schrieb Bud P. Bruegger: > I've always wondered whether this violates the LGPL license of OpenSC > or not. In the case of Italy, I've interpreted the license such that > it is not possible to add closed card support.
I think it is possible in some situations. basically the new work must have enough basis to be copyrightable and independend from opensc. taking a skeleton driver and modifying some apdu and constants and a generic foo/bar replacement would be neither copyrightable nor independend. also we have (or had?) that generic load external driver interface so opensc was initially designed to allow binary only drivers. these days I think the belpic way is better - copy opensc, rename opensc to foobar and add your driver. open source everything except card-newdriver.c, but include the *.o file (and specify which linux/compiler/... you used). of course we prefer open source / code under LGPL. :) > And BTW I have just these days gotten the (so far verbal) ok of our > Ministry to add support for our cards. Some followup is probably > necessary before doing it--but the big job seems done.. wow, congratulations! these are good news! Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
