GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem
=========================

Maintained by Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>

The GNOME Bluetooth Subsystem is being developed with the ultimate
intention of being submitted to the GNOME desktop project.

The software is in its early stages right now.  See the NEWS file for
the latest changes in this release.

This package contains a controller class, GnomebtController, to control
Bluetooth devices, and a simple GUI to explore which devices are
available (gnome-bluetooth-manager).  An OBEX server is available,
gnome-obex-server.  This will receive files sent via Bluetooth to your
PC, and save them in your home directory.  The program gnome-obex-send
enables you to send files.  It is used by the Nautilus component --
select the files you want to send and choose "Send via Bluetooth..."
from the context menu.

There is a mailing list discussing this software at 
http://lists.usefulinc.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bluetooth

The tools in obex/ and python/ are licensed under the GNU General
Public License, Version 2.   See the file COPYING, which accompanies
this distribution, and the section "License for gnome-bluetooth
applications" below.

The libgnomebt library in src/ is licensed under the GNU Lesser General
Public License.  See the file COPYING.gnomebt, which accompanies this
distribution, and the section "License for libgnomebt" belows.


Building
========

You need:

* Bluetooth libs, utils installed installed (bluez.sf.net)
  Version 2.7 or better recommended.

* libbtctl 0.4, available from http://usefulinc.com/software/gnome-bluetooth,
  or GNOME CVS.

* Bluetooth kernel modules installed (either kernel 2.4.22 or get patches
  from bluez.sf.net).

* These GNOME 2 packages:
  	gobject-2.0 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.110.0 libbonobo-2.0
	bonobo-activation-2.0 gconf-2.0 gob2 pygtk-2.2 python2.2/2.3


License for libgnomebt
======================

    libgnomebt -- GNOME Bluetooth libraries
    Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Edd Dumbill

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA


License for gnome-bluetooth applications
========================================

    gnome-bluetooth obex and administration tools
    Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Edd Dumbill

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA