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Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

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Post by abdrzj »

immibis wrote: post #38
Uptrenda wrote: post #24

This is really cool. Nice work and I find the MIT license you've chosen to be interesting. I chose the very same license for my own open source project because I wanted there to be few excuses not to use it. Damn, you've done significant work on this. Will have to check this out more in depth.

Indeed. MIT license means you are working for large corporations for free, if your software is useful. As a capitalist parasite, I strongly support its use.

I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

#52

Post by abdrzj »

richrichardsson wrote: post #39
zamadatix wrote: post #11

As a heads up your project is MIT licensed - that means companies do not need to reach out to purchase a license for commercial use. It might make sense to change that to an offer for official support (or relicense the project to meet your desires if applicable).

Was going to make a similar comment. > Note: Companies interested in purchasing a license to use the source code commercially can contact this number and then > This project is licensed under the MIT License. I guess they didn't understand the MIT license and what rights it confers.

I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

#53

Post by abdrzj »

jacobaul wrote: post #26
thwarted wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says right in the readme: This project is licensed under the MIT License. I hope everyone benefits from this open-source project for the development of IPv6.

The readme of repository includes a paragraph suggesting that companies should reach out for a commercial license. For an MIT licensed codebase that is unusual. I believe the top-level commenter is assuming that discrepancy is by mistake and is giving a heads up. From the readme: >Note: Companies interested in purchasing a license to use the source code commercially can contact this number on WhatsApp

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

#54

Post by richrichardsson »

abdrzj wrote: post #53
jacobaul wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The readme of repository includes a paragraph suggesting that companies should reach out for a commercial license. For an MIT licensed codebase that is unusual. I believe the top-level commenter is assuming that discrepancy is by mistake and is giving a heads up. From the readme: >Note: Companies interested in purchasing a license to use the source code commercially can contact this number on WhatsApp

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code. Best regards

Not a lawyer, but can you retroactively apply your new license to the previous commits?

Pretty sure though any commercial entity that downloaded the code whilst it was MIT licensed (or if they just clone from the commit before you changed the license) that they can use the code with that license. Again, not a lawyer, I may be full of shit!

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

#55

Post by abdrzj »

richrichardsson wrote: post #54
abdrzj wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code. Best regards

Not a lawyer, but can you retroactively apply your new license to the previous commits? Pretty sure though any commercial entity that downloaded the code whilst it was MIT licensed (or if they just clone from the commit before you changed the license) that they can use the code with that license. Again, not a lawyer, I may be full of shit!

The previous source code was incomplete; they must download the latest version of the source code with the latest license for it to work correctly.

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

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Post by abdrzj »

richrichardsson wrote: post #54
abdrzj wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code. Best regards

Not a lawyer, but can you retroactively apply your new license to the previous commits? Pretty sure though any commercial entity that downloaded the code whilst it was MIT licensed (or if they just clone from the commit before you changed the license) that they can use the code with that license. Again, not a lawyer, I may be full of shit!

When using the previous MIT license, the original license and copyright must be included. The original license may change in this case, and the new license must follow the original one.

Re: Captive Portal IPv6 Support

#57

Post by coretx »

sulandor wrote: post #35
zamadatix wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC there was some hullabaloo made with RIPE in ~2017. Half of it was "go to IPv6 and it isn't a problem" and the other half was "or also log the source ports so we can complete the identification through CG-NAT". It's nearly 8 years later, we haven't moved to IPv6, and they stopped making noise so I'm left to assume they either got more source port logging or found some other method?

politics still clinging to the idea of identifying ppl by obvious traffic meta-data

There is people using chef/kitchen knifes for murder too. That doesn't mean we should regulate them for army use and monitor all cooks. Yet this is what many but certainly not all decision makers are doing. Good, fundamental, stuff is happening too, such as RPKI for example. Some "politics" is definitely not happy about that, but its good for the internet.
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