# Libusb > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Libusb > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Libusb.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libusb > Source revision: 1348584945 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Unix software library libusb Release 2007 (2007)[1] Stable release 1.0.30[2] / 17 May 2026; 39 days ago (17 May 2026) Written in C Type Application programming interface Linux on the desktop License LGPL 2.1 Website libusb.info Repository github.com/libusb/libusb.git The [Linux API](/source/Linux_API) is composed out of the System Call Interface of the Linux kernel, the [GNU C Library](/source/GNU_C_Library), [libcgroup](/source/Cgroups),[3] [libdrm](/source/Direct_Rendering_Manager), [libalsa](/source/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture) and [libevdev](/source/Evdev)[4] (by [freedesktop.org](/source/Freedesktop.org)). **libusb** is a [library](/source/Library_(computing)) that provides applications with access for controlling [data transfer](/source/Data_transfer) to and from [USB](/source/USB) devices on [Unix](/source/Unix) and non-Unix systems, without the need for [kernel-mode](/source/Kernel_mode#Supervisor_mode) drivers. ## Availability libusb is currently available for [Linux](/source/Linux), the [BSDs](/source/BSD), [Solaris](/source/Solaris_(operating_system)), [OS X](/source/OS_X), [Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows), [Android](/source/Android_(operating_system)), and [Haiku](/source/Haiku_(operating_system)).[5] It is written in [C](/source/C_(programming_language)). Amongst other applications, the library is used by [SANE](/source/Scanner_Access_Now_Easy), the Linux scanner project, in preference to the kernel scanner module, which is restricted to [Linux kernel](/source/Linux_kernel) 2.4. ## See also - [Linux API](/source/Linux_API) - [udev](/source/Udev) - [Video4Linux](/source/Video4Linux) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Initial commit · libusb/Libusb@852bba4"](https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/852bba4754ec57679c823f33e8feba6e4a564cbe). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-wikidata-6f708124661ee1bd139590bbf746ad50ae5eb791-v20_2-0)** ["Release 1.0.30"](https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/tag/v1.0.30). 17 May 2026. Retrieved 18 May 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-libcgroup_3-0)** ["ControlGroupInterface"](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/). [freedesktop.org](/source/Freedesktop.org). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-libevdev_4-0)** ["libevdev"](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/). [freedesktop.org](/source/Freedesktop.org). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Haiku: Add Haiku support · libusb/Libusb@dc97425"](https://github.com/libusb/libusb/commit/dc97425bb415422423b8876af0e34111e566d56d). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*. ## External links - [Free and open-source software portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_and_open-source_software) - [Official website](https://libusb.info) v t e Linux kernel Organization Kernel Linux Foundation Linux Mark Institute Linus's law Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate Tux SCO disputes Linaro GNU GPL v2 menuconfig Supported computer architectures Version history Criticism Support Developers The Linux Programming Interface kernel.org LKML Linux conferences Users Linux User Group (LUG) People Werner Almesberger H. Peter Anvin Jens Axboe Moshe Bar Suparna Bhattacharya Andries Brouwer Rémy Card Alan Cox Matthew Garrett Avi Kivity Con Kolivas Greg Kroah-Hartman Robert Love David S. 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