Re: separate ptp library ?

On 09/01/06 06:39 am, Mariusz Woloszyn wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >> given that we started to add MPT device support in libgphoto2 (yes you
> >> read: using a digital camera driver to access a digital audio player)
> >> and given that it would make sense that there is one API for all of
> >> these music players, I think it would make sense after libgphoto2 2.2 to
> >> split off the ptp code for the camlib into a separate library. That
> >> would also mean giving libgphoto2_port a separate life.
> >
> > There already is libptp2, which is the parent (and now more a twin
> > brother) of our ptp2 driver.
>
> Just to note: libptp2 is GPL while ptp2 diver and whole libgphoto2 seems
> to be LGPL and both are not mergable to LGPL.

And that is actually a problem for using libptp2 to do MTP

Digital Audio player support requires to be able to be license compatible with 
patented code like MP3 encoding (and decoding). And that, the GPL is not.


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