the difference between this lib and official dw1000 API

bitcraze / libdw1000

Driver for DW1000

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the difference between this lib and official dw1000 API #17

Closed dusz7 closed 5 years ago

dusz7 commented 5 years ago

Sorry to open an issue to ask this question. Recently I work on a project about indoor-location using DW1000, like your LOCO system (https://github.com/bitcraze/lps-node-firmware). And i wonder why didn't you use the official DW1000 API (https://www.decawave.com/software/) but rewrite this driver by yourself? Is it because you want to use several DW1000 radios at the same time? Thank you

ataffanel commented 5 years ago

The main reason for re-writing (ie. porting from the Arduino driver) the driver was mostly because of the license: the Crazyflie 2.0 firmware is licensed under GPLV3 and my understanding is that the license of the Decawave code was not compatible with it.