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licensing: How can hidapi be used in a lgpl program? #444

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cdwijs opened this issue Nov 8, 2019 · 2 comments
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licensing: How can hidapi be used in a lgpl program? #444

cdwijs opened this issue Nov 8, 2019 · 2 comments

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@cdwijs
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cdwijs commented Nov 8, 2019

Hi There,

I would like to use hidapi in a program that I'll release under LGPL. As far as i know a LGPL program is not allowed to use GPL code.

Can I still use hidapi in my LGPL code?
Witch of the following two licenses should I use?

https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/blob/master/LICENSE-bsd.txt
https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/blob/master/LICENSE-orig.txt

Cheers,
Cedric
@Mikhael-Danilov
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I believe it is fine to use BSD licensed code in LGPL program.

@Youw
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Youw commented Nov 8, 2019

Additionally, please check #373
Original author is not answering.
There is a maintained fork under libusb organisation.

Megamouse pushed a commit to RPCS3/hidapi that referenced this issue Jan 6, 2023
@Youw
libusb: fix HID Report descriptor request (signal11#444)
ea38f65 
- pass the actual HID Report descriptor size (from HID descriptor);
- interface_num has to be wIndex, and not as part of wValue for LIBUSB_DT_REPORT request;
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