On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Chapman Flack <gh...@anastigmatix.net> wrote: >> Reactions? Does my dream make sense to other pyusb-users readers?
Hi, A quick note about the licensing scheme of pyftdi (and friends). Some parts are LGPL-licensed because I've initially developed cftdi on top of libftdi - a Python-to-C wrapper for libftdi, and used an API which is very close to libftdi, which is released as LGPL. At that time, I've been in touch with one of the authors of libftdi to ask whether I could use the same API (and some part of the code, although ported from C to Python) with a MIT-style license. To be honnest, LGPL is quite hard to master, LGPL with Python is - for me - nearly impossible to understand. For instance, what is "static linking" or "dynamic linking" in Python's world? Anyway, LGPL in this case was so fuzzy to interpret, and because I had no time to dig into the licensing "mess" I chose to keep the same license as libftdi. >From my point of view, I used to be in favor of GPL-like licenses as a hobbyist, but as a profesionnel developer, this license scheme keeps giving me headaches, even after some dedicated training... I always release new code under MIT / BSD 3 clauses. I wish I could release pyftdi under MIT license as well, if somebody who master licensing issues can tell whether it could collide or not with the distant roots of pyftdi, that is libftdi. To sum up: I have no objection to move to MIT license the whole pyftdi package, I just do no want to deal with this licensing nightmare. Any advice on this topic is very welcome. Cheers, Manu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ pyusb-users mailing list pyusb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyusb-users
