Re: [Libusb-devel] License Violation

[Tim R. <ti...@pr...>]

Paul Toritz wrote:
> I'm attempting to use a Zytronic X-Y touchscreen by a company called Zytronic:
>
>     http://www.zytronic.co.uk/
>
> On their downloads page, they have only windows drivers, but if you contact the
> company directly or through their agents they will supply a Linux driver.
>
> That Linux driver is a bunch of closed source binaries, one of which statically
> links against libusb, in direct violation of the LGPL.
>   

Static linking, in and of itself, is not a violation of the LGPL.  All
they need to do is provide object files that you can use to rebuild the
final executable, and either the modified libusb source or a pointer to
the unmodified libusb source, if that's what they used.

-- 
Tim Roberts, ti...@pr...
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.