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diff --git a/Documentation/guides/introduction.rst b/Documentation/guides/introduction.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 12d1b7d4..00000000 --- a/Documentation/guides/introduction.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 - -.. include:: ../documentation-contents.rst - -Developers guide to libcamera -============================= - -The Linux kernel handles multimedia devices through the 'Linux media' subsystem -and provides a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) known -collectively as V4L2 (`Video for Linux 2`_) and the `Media Controller`_ API -which provide an interface to interact and control media devices. - -Included in this subsystem are drivers for camera sensors, CSI2 (Camera -Serial Interface) receivers, and ISPs (Image Signal Processors) - -The usage of these drivers to provide a functioning camera stack is a -responsibility that lies in userspace which is commonly implemented separately -by vendors without a common architecture or API for application developers. - -libcamera provides a complete camera stack for Linux based systems to abstract -functionality desired by camera application developers and process the -configuration of hardware and image control algorithms required to obtain -desirable results from the camera. - -.. _Video for Linux 2: https://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/userspace-api/v4l/v4l2.html -.. _Media Controller: https://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/userspace-api/mediactl/media-controller.html - - -In this developers guide the `Licensing`_ requirements of the project are -detailed. - -This introduction is followed by a walkthrough tutorial to newcomers wishing to -support a new platform with the `Pipeline Handler Writers Guide`_ and for those -looking to make use of the libcamera native API an `Application Writers Guide`_ -provides a tutorial of the key APIs exposed by libcamera. - -.. _Pipeline Handler Writers Guide: pipeline-handler.html -.. _Application Writers Guide: application-developer.html - -.. TODO: Correctly link to the other articles of the guide - -Licensing ---------- - -The libcamera core, is covered by the `LGPL-2.1-or-later`_ license. Pipeline -Handlers are a part of the libcamera code base and need to be contributed -upstream by device vendors. IPA modules included in libcamera are covered by a -free software license, however third-parties may develop IPA modules outside of -libcamera and distribute them under a closed-source license, provided they do -not include source code from the libcamera project. - -The libcamera project itself contains multiple libraries, applications and -utilities. Licenses are expressed through SPDX tags in text-based files that -support comments, and through the .reuse/dep5 file otherwise. A copy of all -licenses are stored in the LICENSES directory, and a full summary of the -licensing used throughout the project can be found in the COPYING.rst document. - -Applications which link dynamically against libcamera and use only the public -API are an independent work of the authors and have no license restrictions -imposed upon them from libcamera. - -.. _LGPL-2.1-or-later: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1-or-later.html |