Hi,

I am not very versed into pyserial and ftdi stuff. One question comes
to my mind is: what's the advantage of moving stuff from pyserial to
pyusb?
I have an idea of providing an usb.classes package, which would ship
modules for each USB standard class. But I didn't elaborate onto this
yet, it is currently only a vague idea. This might be what you want
here.

2015-04-19 8:31 GMT-03:00 Emmanuel Blot <eblot...@gmail.com>:
> 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
>
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