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Started by Sojourner · 1mo ago · 7cafffb51eb97f9f

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Hi All,

I have a couple questions that I've been thinking about for a couple days now.

Partly inspired by reading:

https://rns.recipes/forum/general/breakout-grant-for-resilient-communication-infrastructur

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https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/127

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/790

(And a bunch of other threads here and on github)

I'll try to be concise.

1. I like Reticulum (the idea), RNS (the implementation). I personally would like to give

a donation as a show of appreciation (and of the realities of living in a world where

money is required).

2. I have a feature (or rather a stability/ease of use) request for using bluetooth as an

interface. Are those allowed?

3. I'm a bit confused here about if commercialisation is allowed. Insofar as I understand

the license it is, but then in discussion #127 on github it seems like Mark is very much

against it, saying amongst other things:

> I just know that if the intention of doing this was to take Sideband to show off to

money-people without discussing it with me first, it absolutely crosses the line for me,

and is in no way OK.

and

> If there is something I will absolutely not stand for, it is someone else associating

Reticulum, and thereby also my work as a whole, with sloppy piece-of-shit hacks just to

impress people with money.

Me and my team (so this part is separate from point 1) intend to use (include, bundle,

convey) reticulum (the implementation) as part of a product, and sell that product to

both consumers and companies. Is that allowed?

I doubt this would sway any opinions on the matter (and so it's not supposed to) but I'd

like to share regardless that we decided on day one that just taking from open source

projects is wrong, and so are planning to pay those projects (within reason, dependency

chains are.. long) back from revenue gained.

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