Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 09 Dec 2014, at 00:09, Adam Hunt wrote: > > allow a potential license change to be put off As long as relicensing hasn’t happened, RIOT stays in suspended animation for those of us who care about actual pickup in products. Waiting some more (a license change has been discussed for more tha

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-08 Thread Adam Hunt
I entirely understand where Johann is coming from. My view are very similar; companies all over the world beat up on Linux in the early days because of the GPL but all these years later things have died down and multibillion dollar transnational corporations are not only still contributing to the L

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-08 Thread Johann Fischer
Hello RIOTers, Emmanuel Baccelli wrote: > 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. They always do that. We have seen it in other successful projects