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3 months ago FWIW I think that relicensing this under a copyleft license like GPL would be unnecessarily restrictive. The software license equivalent of the current CC-BY license is something permissive like the MIT license or the 2-clause BSD license.
Such permissive licenses are typical for open source software libraries (like this one), whereas GPL is typical for open source end-user software (like the VESC configuration tool and the firmware), for good reasons.
Hi there
Creative Commons says not to use this licence for software, you site the parent project as a reason but that uses GPLv3, you should move to GPLv3 or mixed-licensing if needed (e.g. for logos etc). Reading the VESC Project sites suggests they use a mixed licensing approach
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software
https://vesc-project.com/Ethos