Hi Aymetric,
Nice work!
For my part, I'd be a bit reluctant. We've had requests for batman-adv from big companies in the past for an extra license, which we turned down. So there might unfortunately be vultures out there who'd like to build on top of batman-adv without giving back. And I'd feel a bit uncomfortable to have spent so much free time on this project to just "donate" it to such big companies. Who'd enhance it and use that superior, closed source version in products which are in direct competition to wireles community networks like Freifunk.
If there were some ways that non-commercial wireless community projects like Freifunk were benefitting from a dual license then I might be up for it. But right now I don't see how they would?
Regards, Linus
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 04:11:44PM +0200, obiwac wrote:
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: obiwac obiwac@gmail.com Date: Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 16:10 Subject: Possibility of dual-licensing to ease bringing into FreeBSD To: mmokhi@FreeBSD.org mmokhi@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org, jhb@freebsd.org
Hia,
I recently ported batman-adv to FreeBSD as my GSoC project:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2023Projects/CallingTheBatmanFreeNetwor...
I'd like to bring this work into the FreeBSD source tree, but they are reluctant to bring in any new GPL code. Would it be possible to dual-license batman-adv to GPL/BSD, or would you rather not (in which case I'll ask FreeBSD's core@ if an exception could be made for batman-adv)?
Thanks! Aymeric