[Commotion-dev] license and copyright assignment?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

MeshTether is substantially based on Barnacle Wifi Tether, which is
GPLv3, so it'll be easiest there to just keep that license.

jsoninfo is pretty much all written under Commotion funding, but is part
of olsrd, so it should probably use that license (I think MIT or BSD).

The OlsrInfo java library is all new code, so it can easily be whatever
license.

.hc

On 06/08/2012 05:15 PM, Josh King wrote:
> The CommotionWRT code I've written is under the GPLv3, and I have a 
> strong preference for GPL licenses. We haven't been asking projects to 
> assign copyright to us (OTI) for code we've funded to have added to 
> existing projects, but standalone original applications like MeshTether 
> may be a different matter that we've just picked up discussions here at 
> OTI about what that would look like. I'm going to find out from people 
> here what the view is on best practice under the grant, and bring that 
> to the list as a discussion point.
> 
> On Fri 08 Jun 2012 05:06:18 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
>> The underlying OpenWRT codebase uses GPL, would that be the suggested
>> choice for commotion-openwrt?
>> http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/license
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> Which license should I be using for the Commotion code?  I'm fine with
>>> GPL, LGPL, Apache, and BSD.  When a piece of code I've worked on is
>>> based on another package I generally find it makes the most sense to
>>> keep the license the same as the original.
>>>
>>> Also, who should the copyright be assigned to?  OTI? New America? FSF? me?
>>>
>>> .hc
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> 
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> Josh King
> 
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