Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Emmanuel Baccelli
Hi Carsten, on the topic of rewriting history ;) it would be interesting to know if you have an estimation of the proportion of RIOT code your people would have developed that would have been contributed back to the master branch, over the last 1,5+ years, taking into account the constraints of you

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread René Kijewski
Sorry Adam, I don't know how your name got intermixed into my answer. I had no intention to misquote you, and I like your previous letter very much. -- “My head was aching, and I had a singular feeling—altogether new to me—that some one else was trying to get alice’s configuration” — http://the

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread René Kijewski
Am Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:36:32 +0100 schrieb Emmanuel Baccelli : > this is a gentle reminder to input your opinions on this thread before > Wednesday night (i.e., tomorrow). You cannot use any of my contributions under any BSD license, because I don't think that it is a logic choice. I would welcom

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread René Kijewski
Am Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:43:26 +0100 schrieb Carsten Bormann : > On 09 Dec 2014, at 00:09, Adam Hunt wrote: > I could have people working on RIOT for those 1.5 years... If you actually had any intentions to contribute to RIOT, then you would dual or tri-license your contributions ... -- “My head

Re: [riot-devel] Problem with RPL-UDP example for SAMR21

2014-12-09 Thread Maxence Chotard
Hi Oleg ! Thank you for your help ! Maxence -Message d'origine- De : devel [mailto:devel-boun...@riot-os.org] De la part de Oleg Hahm Envoyé : mardi 9 décembre 2014 15:51 À : RIOT OS kernel developers Objet : Re: [riot-devel] Problem with RPL-UDP example for SAMR21 Hi Maxence! > Did y

Re: [riot-devel] Basing my cpu/board port off existing ports

2014-12-09 Thread Oleg Hahm
> >I suggest to keep it simple: In the case you copy files that are > >basically empty as your example below or in the case you remove > >everything except the function declarations (as probably in low-level > >drivers as gpio.c and others) I would just remove the existing copyright > >and authors

Re: [riot-devel] Basing my cpu/board port off existing ports

2014-12-09 Thread Kaspar Schleiser
Hey, On 12/09/14 16:07, Hauke Petersen wrote: I suggest to keep it simple: In the case you copy files that are basically empty as your example below or in the case you remove everything except the function declarations (as probably in low-level drivers as gpio.c and others) I would just remove t

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Emmanuel Baccelli
Hi Johan, On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Johann Fischer wrote: > 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 sh

Re: [riot-devel] Basing my cpu/board port off existing ports

2014-12-09 Thread Hauke Petersen
Hi Joakim, I suggest to keep it simple: In the case you copy files that are basically empty as your example below or in the case you remove everything except the function declarations (as probably in low-level drivers as gpio.c and others) I would just remove the existing copyright and author

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Matthias Waehlisch
Hi Kevin, On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, ROUSSEL Kévin wrote: > I'm not absolutely against licence switch but... I actually feel > uneasy about about this kind of demands... > > If I understand right, some corporations which have probably > contributed nothing to the project just barges in and said : "if

Re: [riot-devel] Problem with RPL-UDP example for SAMR21

2014-12-09 Thread Oleg Hahm
Hi Maxence! > Did you find something about my problem ? Sorry for the lack of responsiveness. I had some weird problems with the board last Friday (couldn't get any output using the rpl_udp example, while other examples work fine). Will investigate further and let you know as soon as I figure som

[riot-devel] Basing my cpu/board port off existing ports

2014-12-09 Thread Joakim Gebart
What is the correct procedure regarding author and copyright headers when I write a new port, but base the file off another port? For example: I start by copying the cpu/stm32f1 directory, as a basis for my new port. The CPUs share no code other than RIOT generic code, such as API (function declar

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread ROUSSEL Kévin
Hello, I'm not absolutely against licence switch but... I actually feel uneasy about about this kind of demands... If I understand right, some corporations which have probably contributed nothing to the project just barges in and said : "if you want us to use your work, you have to let us ma

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Matthias Waehlisch
Hi Adam, On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Adam Hunt wrote: > There's another option on the table that would allow a potential > license change to be put off for some time while still being able to > do it with minimal headache down the road. Any license change is > obviously going to require all the past c

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Kaspar Schleiser
Hey, On 12/09/2014 12:43 AM, Carsten Bormann 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 m

Re: [riot-devel] Switch to BSD?

2014-12-09 Thread Emmanuel Baccelli
Hi everyone, this is a gentle reminder to input your opinions on this thread before Wednesday night (i.e., tomorrow). Thanks, Emmanuel On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On 09 Dec 2014, at 00:09, Adam Hunt wrote: > > > > allow a potential license change to be put off > >