Hi everyone, this thread has been silent since new year's break.
Has anyone changed his/her mind on the topic in the mean time? Else, here's a tentative summary on where we are at, so far, in terms of expressed opinions: - a few have stated their enthusiasm for MIT/BSD - a few have stated their enthusiasm for (L)GPL - the vast majority is less enthusiastic to either direction but could approve a switch to MIT, for pragmatic reasons Is that fair enough, in a nutshell? On a related topic, concerning the technical feasibility of LGPL licensing with RIOT, I assume you have all seen this proposal https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/LGPL-compliancy-guide which is the first attempt at a practical guide to proprietary code in RIOT. Any comments on this in the context of the license discussion? Best, Emmanuel On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Emmanuel Baccelli < emmanuel.bacce...@inria.fr> wrote: > Dear RIOTers, > > we have been receiving an increasing amount of negative feedback from > various companies concerning the practical usability of our LGPL license in > their context, being a show-stopper. > > For this reason, INRIA, Freie Universitaet (FU) Berlin and Hamburg > University of Applied Science (HAW) are currently considering changing the > license of their contributions to RIOT to a less restrictive license (i.e. > BSD, potentially as soon as next release). > > Such a switch to BSD is betting that the effect of a potentially smaller > percentage of user/devel contributing back to the master branch will be > dwarfed by the effect of a user/devel community growing much bigger and > quicker. This seems doable considering the current momentum around RIOT. > > In a second phase, if such a license switch takes place for INRIA/FU/HAW > contributions, we would then contact other contributors individually, to > check their status concerning a similar switch for their own contributions. > > But in the first place, we would like to debate this topic. In particular: > is anyone violently opposing the idea of migrating to a less restrictive > license, such as BSD? If so, why? On the other hand, if you explicitly > support the license change, feel free to indicate this as well. Please send > your opinion to the list before Dec. 10th. > > Cheers, > > Emmanuel >
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