[Tinyos Core WG] GPL and contrib

[Philip Levis]

On Apr 20, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Martin Leopold wrote:

> Hi All.
> The point is drawing nearer where I would like to share my cc2430
> platform on a public server, however the license I would like to  
> use is
> GPL. I think this was discussed previously, but just to make sure I'm
> asking the question again: this will not be allowed in contrib, right?
>
> In this case my thought was to create a separate sourceforge project
> that is essentially the same as T2-contrib, but allows GPL. I talked
> with Kevin and none of us mind managing two different project with
> different rules (eg. GPL).
>

That makes sense.

> Would using the same index on the website be pushing it?

I think so. The GPL raises issues people might not be aware of, and  
we really want to make it clear. I think that having a second index,  
which states this issues at the top, would be ideal. Ideally, both  
would have a link from the tinyos.net front page. E.g.. Tinyos-2.x  
Extensions and TinyOS-2.x Extensions (GPL).

Phil