[libhid-discuss] MGE, HID Parser and GPL

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Tom Isaacson wrote:

> The suggestion then was to replace HID parser with the code from  
> lsusb,
> and "ask the guys who wrote that if we can use their code and  
> license it
> under the Artistic license". Did anyone contact them about this?

No, that was the last email we got from Frederick Reiß.

Xiaofan brings up a good point, though. If your HID device is just  
using the HID protocol as a wrapper for serial-over-USB (that is,  
there are only a few reports, and they all need to be read or written  
at the same time), then most of the HID parser code is irrelevant  
anyway. It was really intended for Power Device Class devices like  
UPSes which have a complex hierarchy of usage IDs, where you only need  
to fetch a select few usage IDs in your inner loop.