Am 06.10.2014 12:39, schrieb Lev Serebryakov: > > So, I ask direct permission from authors to use librtlsdr in BSD > 2-clause licensed open-source project. >
Actually, it would make far more sense to change the license of the library from GPL to LGPL. Then corner cases like this are well covered. The executables can of course stay GPL. For the application programmer a GPL'ed library is a pain, as it either forces your app to be GPL (which for various reasons is not always feasible), not to ship with the rtlsdr library (but have the customer install it from some internet source - e.g. the way SDR# does it with their install script http://sdrsharp.com/downloads/sdr-install.zip) or do a wrapper (e.g. use something like rtl_tcp). The issue has already been discussed a number of times on this list - unfortunately without results (http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/osmocom-sdr/2012-September/000276.html http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/osmocom-sdr/2014-March/001197.html) Regards, Alexander
