This (migrating to a BSD license) should be an "awesome" step, especially for small design companies like us.
Thanks, Akshay On 4 December 2014 at 03:29, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@riot-os.org > http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > >
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