Re: [riot-devel] Feedback from emworld and future plans (partnerships AND licensing)

2015-02-27 Thread Oleg Hahm
Hi Jan! In addition to the other replies: - RIOT is an OS that is mostly powered by the community with alot of students of european universities(?) That's only half the truth: a big portion of the contributions to RIOT actually came from people paid by universities or research institutes (as

Re: [riot-devel] Feedback from emworld and future plans (partnerships AND licensing)

2015-02-26 Thread Kaspar Schleiser
Hi, On 02/26/2015 12:35 PM, Jan Wagner wrote: Is the big picture clearer fo you? yes kind of. but can you please tell my what this fincancial engagement is used for? - who is defined as maintainer? RIOT is legally fully independent and will stay so. We're setting up a Verein in order

[riot-devel] Feedback from emworld and future plans (partnerships AND licensing)

2015-02-25 Thread Jan Wagner
Hi devs, you have read that many of you are currently at embedded world meeting with representatives and unbrella corps. I did not understand the future plans for the RIOT-OS yet. Its not even clear to me why and for what in details RIOT needs business support. I mean we all have freedom incl