Open-source FRC code

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Currently Kevin's license is preventing us from just uploading our code. Any ideas about how to deal with this? I don't want to leave out those parts of the code, since they are just as vital to our code as what we wrote and will write.

As far as the license goes on Kevin Watson's stuff; you have 2 options: get permission to upload (probably won't happen) or don't upload it. I think the second option is your only choice; you will just need to link to Kevin's site and say something like "add KW's serial_ports.c/h to this project before compiling".

I really hope Kevin opens up his licensing a bit, but he does not want commercial use, and using the GPL would allow whatever commercial use, anywhere. We'll have to consult him on this, but it sounds like his trust has been abused, and he is not likely to relicense his stuff because of this.

Thanks for your support. I thought someone was going to shoot this down, but nobody did. Nobody even voted for anything besides "Good" on the poll...
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