[wsfii-discuss] batman license (Was: funding supernodes)

Fri Nov 2 10:53:46 UTC 2007

Hello,

On Donnerstag 01 November 2007, Alexander Morlang wrote:
> Daniel Mullen schrieb:
> > I stand corrected, the notice now reads:
> >
> > "This work shall be used for non-military and non-surveillance purposes
> > only." 

This is a statement! 

We are mainly focusing on non-commercial and free community networks 
initiatives. We do not want to support any sorts of trendy security paranoia, 
military usage, nor (as mentioned earlyer) these Big Brother eyes in any 
public/private areas.
Unfortunately, i am not aware of any license which really takes care of this 
aspect or even allows legal enforcement.

BTW: The GPU project has once raised a few discussions with 
their "non-military license" initiative. Seems to be not easy.
http://www.nabble.com/non-military-use-license-t2960016.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236549&page=7

> > - not quite GPL. 
>
> in this case, it is a copyright breach of GPL, as stated in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL as any modification
> is not allowed to be called GNU.
>
> > Still this leaves it quite unusable when many customers on the
> > commercial side, who are not ISPs already, deploy these things for
> > remote monitoring of some sort. Even a fish farm in Norway would not be
> > allowed to monitor their ponds.
>
> ether it has no licence or the restricion is not valid.

All documents/code on open-mesh.net are licensed individually and define this 
with its header of footer.
Generally, most of the source code (BATMAN) is licensed under GPL, so it 
allows commercial usage...
Most of the documents as well as the content of the web-pages is licensed 
under CC by-nc-sa. This license does not allow commercial usage.

ciao,
axel

>
> > Daniel
>
> Alex
>
> > At 18:23 31.10.2007, you wrote:
> >> On 10/27/07, *Daniel Mullen* < daniel.mullen at broadvox.com
> >> <mailto:daniel.mullen at broadvox.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     For instance, if we wanted to make a commercial box running BATMAN
> >>     and use profits from the product to finance projects, we would be
> >>     running afoul the license terms for use of BATMAN.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hm? Why is that? AFAICS, BATMAN is licensed under the GPL License,
> >> which doesn't prohibit any commercial use.
> >>
> >> -LM
> >>
> >>
> >>
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