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5 The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
6 Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
7 device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
9 libsigrokdecode is a shared library written in C which provides the basic
10 API for running sigrok protocol decoders. The protocol decoders themselves
11 are written in Python.
17 libsigrokdecode is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.
19 While the API can change from release to release, this will always be
20 properly documented and reflected in the package version number and
21 in the shared library / libtool / .so-file version numbers.
23 However, there are _NO_ guarantees at all for stable APIs in git snapshots!
24 Distro packagers should only use released tarballs (no git snapshots).
41 Building and installing
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44 In order to get the libsigrokdecode source code and build it, run:
46 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrokdecode
52 For installing libsigrokdecode:
56 See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
58 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
64 libsigrokdecode is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
65 (GPL), version 3 or later.
67 The protocol decoders (PDs) included in libsigrokdecode are an integral part
68 of the shared library (they are not merely external "plugins", they are not
69 external programs that libsigrokdecode calls via fork/exec, they cannot
70 function standalone without libsigrokdecode at all, the PDs and the rest of
71 the libsigrokdecode codebase share data structures and make function calls
72 to each other). Thus, since the PDs are part of the library, they are also
73 licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
75 While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
76 some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
77 the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
79 Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
85 There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrokdecode:
87 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
88 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
94 You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
100 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrokdecode