[Indi-devel] Fwd: Re: How to send a driver to the official distribution of INDI, license issues and coding conventions

[Jasem M. <mut...@ik...>]

Forgot to CC the list.

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From: "Jasem Mutlaq" <mut...@ik...>
Date: Feb 8, 2012 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Indi-devel] How to send a driver to the official distribution
of INDI, license issues and coding conventions
To: "S. Alonso" <ze...@ug...>

Hi,

I'm on vacation right now and typing this on my phone so I'll be brief.

1. We prefer drivers to be released under LGPL v2.1 as this is the license
for most drivers.

2. This is subjective as we try to keep the footprint of libindi small, so
for "sufficiently" popular devices, their drivers are included in the
default libindi release. others are releases as 3rd party.

3. Yes and no. I planned to add a little document on coding conventions but
didnt have the time. You can take a look a QSI CCD driver which follows
most of these conventions.

4. in this case it is better to release as 3rd party so that u can fix or
update it independent of libindi official release schedule.

On Feb 8, 2012 11:00 PM, "S. Alonso" <ze...@ug...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have almost already finished my first INDI driver which may be of
> interest of other users. It is for the AAG Cloud Watcher weather station,
> build by AAGWare (http://www.aagware.eu/) and distributed by Lunatico
> (http://lunatico.es/).
>
> Thus, I think it could be great if it is included in the regular
> distribution of INDI along with the existing drivers. But, to do so,
> several questions arise:
>
> - I thought  of realeasing the drivers with the GPL v3 license. Would it
> be OK? Should the drivers be distributed with a different license?
>
> - What requirements do the drivers have to met in order to be distributed
> in the new INDI version?
>
> - Are there any coding convention that the code should met? I have tried
> to document all relevant functions, members and so on with doxygen, but I
> don't know if anything special is required.
>
> - What should I do to have the code included in the INDI distribution?
> Would it be possible to update the sources in case that some fixes are
> made?
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Zerjillo
>
>
>
>
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