This is a debian pakcage of a free BCU SDK for EIB. This package is available at: http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php/bcus Copyright: GNU General Public License On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. The eibd client library as well as the header and include files for the BCU operation system have the following exception: In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public License, you may link the compiled version of this file into combinations with other programs, and distribute those combinations without any restriction coming from the use of this file. (The General Public License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked into a combine executable.) XML Schema files as well as DTD have the requirement: Modified version of this specification must change the namespace. This means, that derived version must use a different the the namespace as the original version. It does not limit, that different derived versions may use the same (not original) namespace/version. The USB backend uses a heavily, modified version of libusb. It is under the GNU Lesser General Public License. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'. The official web site of libusb is: http://libusb.sourceforge.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- In order to justify continuing development, it is helpful to have an idea of how many people are using this software. To contribute, please send a short mail to bcusdk@auto.tuwien.ac.at whether you find this software useful. Please note, that this is not requirement to use/modify/distribute the software. Martin Koegler