License
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For historical reasons (PyFtdi has been initially developed as a compatibility
layer with libftdi_), the main ``ftdi.py`` file had originally been licensed
under the same license as the libftdi_ project, the GNU Lesser General Public
License LGPL v2 license. It does not share code from this project anymore, but
implements a similar API.

From my perspective, you may use it freely in open source or close source, free
or commercial projects as long as you comply with the BSD 3-clause license.


BSD 3-clause
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  Copyright (c) 2008-2025 Emmanuel Blot <emmanuel.blot@free.fr>
  All Rights Reserved.

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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      * Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors may
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