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Attribution, licensing, and potentially-commercial use of unmodified code

Open rdragonrydr opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

I am looking into potentially selling a device that makes use of your library for the UART and DMA methods for the ESP8266 controller (since you have the only library that actually uses those techniques, rather than disabling interrupts, which would be lethal for my design).

My plan is to provide the hardware, potentially with compiled firmware preloaded, but provide full source code (and either including your library as a whole in a subdirectory, or by mentioning to the user that it needs to be installed, among the others I use) on my Github or some other website. If I understand this correctly, this would satisfy the terms of the LGPL, and I don't really want to provide a closed-source system anyway.

Can you advise me as to whether this particular use/subset of the library is okay to be used this way? I'm not sure whether you have finished your documentation or other licensing minutiae mentioned in the previous request.

rdragonrydr avatar Jan 18 '20 04:01 rdragonrydr

https://github.com/Makuna/NeoPixelBus/wiki/Library-Comercial-Use

I prefer links, as it helps direct people to my contribution and possible donations. But follow LGPL guidelines and you are good.

When you make some profits, kick me a donation or two ;-)

Makuna avatar Jan 18 '20 07:01 Makuna