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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).
39 - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
40 - libsigrok >= 0.2.0 (optional, only needed for the developer PD tests)
43 Building and installing
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46 In order to get the libsigrokdecode source code and build it, run:
48 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrokdecode
54 For installing libsigrokdecode:
58 See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
60 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
66 libsigrokdecode is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
67 (GPL), version 3 or later.
69 The protocol decoders (PDs) included in libsigrokdecode are an integral part
70 of the shared library (they are not merely external "plugins", they are not
71 external programs that libsigrokdecode calls via fork/exec, they cannot
72 function standalone without libsigrokdecode at all, the PDs and the rest of
73 the libsigrokdecode codebase share data structures and make function calls
74 to each other). Thus, since the PDs are part of the library, they are also
75 licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
77 While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
78 some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
79 the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
81 Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
87 There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrokdecode:
89 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
90 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
96 You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
102 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrokdecode