Hi Kevin,
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, ROUSSEL Kévin wrote:
> I'm not absolutely against licence switch but... I actually feel
> uneasy about about this kind of demands...
>
> If I understand right, some corporations which have probably
> contributed nothing to the project just barges in and said : "if you
> want us to use your work, you have to let us make whatever we want
> with it, ask nothing in return, no code contribution, no financial
> help (since this is free software), nothing". To be honest, I find
> this kind of behavior quite... displaced.
>
I think that is the wrong impression. In particular, BSD/MIT does not
mean that companies will not contribute back. But LGPL means for many
companies that they will not start to *think about* using the software.
> Moreover, with that software patent crap that flourishes almost everywhere out
> of EU (and maybe even here in the future), wouldn't that change make us
> vulnerable to being sued for just developing our own code? As Rene Kijewski
> said, if we must change, we should find a license that protects us from that
> kind of trap...
>
Why is MIT conflicting with this?
> Of course, it's good to broaden RIOT community, but what kind of
> members will be attracted by that kind of move? I can just wonder.
>
Honestly, I don't think we should argue in this direction, i.e., the
bad and good people on earth. There are several very nice people and
good programmers that contribute only to BSD projects.
> PS: sorry for my lack of contribution these last weeks, I'm finishing
> some paper submissions
>
Good luck!
Cheers
matthias
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