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T-Stick Digital Musical Instrument (DMI)
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Possible License Issue #30

Closed DocSunset closed 12 months ago

DocSunset commented 1 year ago

It appears the T-Stick firmware is marked as MIT licensed, whereas libmapper-arduino uses the stronger copyleft, and therefore incompatible, GPL 3+. I've left an issue on the latter in case this was not intended to be so (https://github.com/mathiasbredholt/libmapper-arduino/issues/11), but in case it is the T-Stick firmware probably needs to be changed to also use the GPL 3+ license. @edumeneses I'm guessing the MIT license here was inherited from the Puara template?

edumeneses commented 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing that out @DocSunset.

The MIT portion mentioned in the README comes from before Puara, but for the firmware folder, we have an inherited LICENSE file from the Puara template.

But the puara-module-template license is also wrong, as it loads Mathias' libmapper-arduino. Finally, Puara-module states that it requires libmapper-arduino, but it doesn´t.

I'll fix the licensing on Puara's end: change the puara-module-template to GPL3 and update the readme file for Puara-module, leaving it as MIT.

After that, we can fix the T-Stick's licence (should be GPL3).

I think we previously discussed the licensing for libmapper and decided to go for GPL3. Not sure if that's the best option if we want to spread libmapper usage beyond the open source, but this is a topic for the libmapper group.

DocSunset commented 1 year ago

It seems like libmapper-arduino might get a license change (https://github.com/mathiasbredholt/libmapper-arduino/issues/11) so it might be better to wait for that situation to fully resolve. 👍

edumeneses commented 1 year ago

Ah, I see. In that case, if Mathias decides to change to LGPL, we can keep MIT.

I might change Puara's licences to LGPL soon. I'll follow up and wait a bit to update the licenses all at once when libmapper-arduino license is sorted out.

DocSunset commented 12 months ago

Mathias updated the upstream license to LGPL (mathiasbredholt/libmapper-arduino@54060796d08fe81d888958f7c023df5a5ffad720), so looks like this is a non-issue.