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The Serval Project's core daemon that implements Distributed Numbering Architecture (DNA), MDP, VoMP, Rhizome, MeshMS, etc.
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Make sure './configure && make all install' work. #71

Closed petterreinholdtsen closed 10 years ago

quixotique commented 10 years ago

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the patch. Before I pull it, I'd like to clarify a copyright issue.

The Serval Project normally requires that all contributors sign a copyright assignment agreement (see http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:dev:). We do this so that in future we could dual license the Serval source code to GPL-hostile platforms, eg iOS and Windows Mobile. Although dual licensing for closed platforms would go against the principles of free software, our fundamental humanitarian objective means we must retain it as an option.

However, I would venture that the changes in your patch are so small and standard that they are not copyrightable, so I could pull them straight away. (By “standard” I mean that anyone seeking to implement make install within the autotools framework would come up with exactly the same lines in Makefile.ini.)

Would you agree?

petterreinholdtsen commented 10 years ago

[Andrew Bettison]

Hi Peter,

Hi. (Peter is my cousin. I am Petter. :-)

Thanks for the patch. Before I pull it, I'd like to clarify a copyright issue.

Thank you for bringing

The Serval Project normally requires that all contributors sign a copyright assignment agreement (see http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:dev:). We do this so that in future we could dual license the Serval source code to GPL-hostile platforms, eg iOS and Windows Mobile. Although dual licensing for closed platforms would go against the principles of free software, our fundamental humanitarian objective means we must retain it as an option.

In general, I am not very keep in copyright assignment agreement with my free software development, as I prefer to work on projects where every contributor have equal rights. And such requirement will block people from contributors where their employer is unwilling to approve of the transwer. Another way for your stated goal of having the code available on GPL-hostile platforms would be to use a BSD like license, so I fail to see why copyright assignment is the correct solution. In addition, the copyright assignment agreement is very broad, transfering quite a lot more than as I can tell, would be required to use the code on GPL-hostile platforms.

In short, when I donate my time and knowledge, I do not like getting a legal agreement pushed in my face and asked to sign away rights I otherwise would have.

However, I would venture that the changes in your patch are so small and standard that they are not copyrightable, so I could pull them straight away. (By “standard” I mean that anyone seeking to implement make install within the autotools framework would come up with exactly the same lines in Makefile.ini.)

Would you agree?

Yes. This patch is a trivial implementation of the 'make install' pattern used by any package using autoconf.

Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

gardners commented 10 years ago

Petter, As mentioned we are happy to accept contributions given on a dual-licensed BSD+GPL basis. Paul.

quixotique commented 10 years ago

Pulled manually.