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Nature40 / pimod

Reconfigure Raspberry Pi images with an easy, Docker-like configuration file
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Closed aniongithub closed 3 years ago

aniongithub commented 3 years ago

This project seems like a great idea, with tons of potential for not just humanitarian purposes but a lot more to enable people to use commodity hardware. See my pi-bootstrap repo for something similar, but based on pi-gen. I allow injection of secrets for ready-to-connect images as well as complete modification/re-arranging the steps for even a base image via an externally sourced config, among other things.

However, the GPL v3 license on this repo. makes it impossible to use in a commercial setting or derive freely without going GPL myself. Would you consider licensing it under something more permissive, say the MIT license? I believe this would be of benefit to the maker community at large.

oxzi commented 3 years ago

However, the GPL v3 license on this repo. makes it impossible to use in a commercial setting or derive freely without going GPL myself.

IANAL, but this should only be relevant for libraries. However, pimod is a tool which you can use under its free license. The GNU GPL does not affect the Pifiles or even the images you create.

aniongithub commented 3 years ago

That's true if I only intended to use it as it is. However, I would like to make this mechanism work with other SBCs and extend the commands and toolset. Even forking it would mean requring continuation of the GPL V3 license - this is the reason I asked about a more permissive license.