[dhatkovsky]

I know it's been raised a number of time Kodi doesn't do mirroring or video since iOS9. However, there's a product called reflector which does the video and the mirroring both for AirPlay, Google Cast and MiraCast and it looks like they somehow provide the library/API for 3rd party products. It would be nice to align with them on a kind of library instance being purchased by end users with Kodi calling that library.

Here's the link:
https://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/library

[RockerC]

I am sure that the short answer will be something like; Squirrels Reflector Library is a closed source / proprietary library and Kodi as GPL licensed open source program can not link with a proprietary library that is not a system library, and Squirrels Reflector Library certainly does not meet the criteria of a system library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_o...e_software

Kodi is "free/libre and open source software (FOSS/FLOSS)" and Kodi's core code is licensed under GPLv2 and as such, as far as I know, unless it is a system library that can be linked, Kodi can practically only integrate libraries and code that are compatible with the GNU General Public License v2.0 license:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FSWithNFLibs

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.htm...yException

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.htm...atibleLibs

Presumably, only if you could somehow convince the Squirrels company that makes Reflector Library to non-exclusively re-license or dual-license it as GPL or LGPL could developers use it Kodi, as a "copyright holder for a program can release it under several different licenses in parallel. One of them may be the GNU GPL.".

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.htm...erGPLAndNF

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.htm...herLicense

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.htm...ThirdParty