Bug#791965: ITP: openzwave -- API to use a Z-Wave controller
On 31/10/15 at 11:36 +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >Have you made progress on this?
>
> I uploaded the package and got a reject from paultag. In his eyes a license
> was non-free. I don't agree with him, but I didn't start a discussion as I
> also got information from the ZWave alliance. One argument to sell ZWave
> products is their certification and such everything works together with
> everything else. As openzwave does not really comply with their
> specification and even does not support every part of ZWave (e.g. the
> security stuff seems to be missing), the Alliance would be very critical of
> openzwave. If there will be complaints of users, I guess they will enforce
> their trademark.
>
> So basically I stopped working on the package.
Okay, I see.
Given you had something working, would you mind sharing it with me? (Is
it maintained in git somewhere?) I'll try to merge it with upstream's
existing Debian packaging code, so that at least your work is not
completely lost.
Also, if you could forward paultag's reject to the ITP bug, it could be
useful. The license issue is worth looking into independently of the
other issues.
Lucas
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