[libhid-discuss] MGE, HID Parser and GPL

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/8/25 Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc>

> On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tom Isaacson wrote:
>
>  I've been looking around for an open source library that provides USB
>> HID support across Win32, Linux and OS X and libhid seems to fit the
>> bill, but the GPL is a bit of a problem. I went to look at the MGE
>> webpage for their HID Parser
>> (http://www.mgeups.com/opensource/projects/hidparser.htm) and I get a
>> message saying they were merged with another company and the website is
>> now www.apc.com. I can't find any reference on here to the HID Parser or
>> open source projects in general. Does this mean they still own it?
>>
>
> I am CCing Arnaud - it may be considered property of MGE Office Protection
> Systems, which is now part of Eaton.
>

sadly, no! otherwise, I would have tried the license conversion effort.
the carve out only included licensing and sub licensing of the various
software, not the copyright ownership...

so the hidparser code rewrite is still the only option for relicensing
libhid.
this and the authors approval.

 Is the GPL in place?
>>
>
> In any event, yes, the libhid code is all GPL'd.
>
>  Assuming it is, what happened to the plans to rewrite the HID parser?
>> Was any work done on this or is it wide open?
>>
>
> This effort has stalled, partly because the main consumer of the libhid
> project, Network UPS Tools, is GPL'd anyway, and happily using an older
> version of the HID parser code.
>
>  On a different note, I originally found libhid on SourceForge but the
>> CVS repository there doesn't contain any code. Is this a completely
>> different project or was it an attempt to use a different repository?
>>
>
> Looks like a completely different project.
>

indeed.
at first glance, this seems to be anincomplete and abandoned c++
implementation... also gpl'ed.

cheers,
Arnaud
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