[BRLTTY] Commercial license

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, on Mon 12 Sep 2016 21:58:34 +0200, wrote:
> BrlAPI allows to drive braille devices from outside BRLTTY, precisely
> for that purpose: you run an unmodified BRLTTY, run your own program
> alongside in a separate process and make it use BrlAPI to connect to
> it. Since BrlAPI is *LGPL, you can do that without having to disclose
> the source of the program.

Also, only the libbrlapi implementation is covered by LGPL. The BrlAPI
protocol itself is just a protocol, unrelated to the LGPL licence, and a
client implementation for it can be written under any kind of licence.

Samuel