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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:37:34 +0400
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Subject: Re: [RFC][WIP] IEEE 802.15.4 implementation for Linux v1
From: Maxim Osipov <maxim.osipov@gmail.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jon Smirl<jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Dmitry
> Eremin-Solenikov<dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As a part of research activities the Embedded Systems - Open Platform Group
>> from Siemens Corporate Technology we are working on adding support for
>> the IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Personal Area Networks to the Linux. Our current
>> implementation is neither certified nor even feature complete. However
>> we'd like to present current state of our patchset to the Linux developers
>> community to gain comments, fixes, ideas, etc. This is not yet a pull request,
>> but more like an RFC.
>>
>
> The Zigbee alliance requires a minimum of $3,500/yr from any company
> making a product based on the spec. How are you going to reconcile
> this requirement with the GPL? They exempt non-commercial users but
> the GPL doesn't allow code to be free for one purpose and pay for
> another.
>

For now, we do not release any ZigBee implementation. BTW - could you
refer to particular clause of GPL, which doesn't allow user to pay for
code?

Regards,
Maxim