I think its final decidet. Maybee for solution. To manage openplotter in that way in future that you can build yours suite. But this needs a better documentation how to pack things together and how to let them out. In case you like to pack it as deb file to integrade it official into the sources at the moment anyways there is no way to go. For example if you give it an official debian packager in the hands there will be a lot of works to sort the things out.
Anyways you are the maintainer and if i look through github there are also still depend to ais things where copyright is not clear to me... Things are used or not....
I still beleave for openplotter there is a need of a pluginsystem for such cases. also a seperate developer documentation from the user documentation... I think at least Openplotter gets less sexy if the opensource way is left. My point and this is absolute out of discussion is not the comercial or free available code... the discussion is to make also with this peace of software comercial versions... thats not important. For me its aquestion to have open sourced. and make a politcal statement against Nmea 2000 consortium... seems their strategy rolls on from the back to capture or include their standards inside code and to eat at least for free the things they do not have. We have a weather report and its a question to push OpenCPN to make MBtiles possible...
Others do similar they have a base and such things are add ons or plugins what you can install. Basic its enough to install Signal K and to put the rest inside.As long you use openplotter headless its just a question to run things like Wilhelm SK or freie Tonne the same time. I did bought an airmar triducer to participate and give something back to Openseamap and not to support the big players of the NMEA Consortium to sample for free Data for them. Another solution can be to provide 2 different versions of openplotter.
Do not mix open source with payment pleace... Fact is Opensource must not be free... Sourcecode must be open... more important that closed source will touch the freedom and can sample data from my boat and i can not do anything.. the business model are the data and this is not in control with closed source...
GPL guarantee also commercial use not any problem... Remember the arguments of the can boat developer or the signal k team. Why they start to develope their software. You can install their system ... ask why they wish... ask why you wish... The summer was allways the discusion in the git about the weather at least if i realy have a problem with our solution now i install their system may in worst case on a second raspberry pi...
Anyways you are the maintainer and if i look through github there are also still depend to ais things where copyright is not clear to me... Things are used or not....
I still beleave for openplotter there is a need of a pluginsystem for such cases. also a seperate developer documentation from the user documentation... I think at least Openplotter gets less sexy if the opensource way is left. My point and this is absolute out of discussion is not the comercial or free available code... the discussion is to make also with this peace of software comercial versions... thats not important. For me its aquestion to have open sourced. and make a politcal statement against Nmea 2000 consortium... seems their strategy rolls on from the back to capture or include their standards inside code and to eat at least for free the things they do not have. We have a weather report and its a question to push OpenCPN to make MBtiles possible...
Others do similar they have a base and such things are add ons or plugins what you can install. Basic its enough to install Signal K and to put the rest inside.As long you use openplotter headless its just a question to run things like Wilhelm SK or freie Tonne the same time. I did bought an airmar triducer to participate and give something back to Openseamap and not to support the big players of the NMEA Consortium to sample for free Data for them. Another solution can be to provide 2 different versions of openplotter.
(2017-10-10, 04:11 PM)Sailoog Wrote: Just to clarify:
Tocan is absolutely wrong. qtVlm could coexist with openplotter license if we decide that.
The only problem here is ethical not legal.
OpenPlotter is open-source and always will be.
qtVlm is not commercial, it is free but it is not open-source.
OpenPlotter will never pay or receive royalties from anybody.
Do not mix open source with payment pleace... Fact is Opensource must not be free... Sourcecode must be open... more important that closed source will touch the freedom and can sample data from my boat and i can not do anything.. the business model are the data and this is not in control with closed source...
GPL guarantee also commercial use not any problem... Remember the arguments of the can boat developer or the signal k team. Why they start to develope their software. You can install their system ... ask why they wish... ask why you wish... The summer was allways the discusion in the git about the weather at least if i realy have a problem with our solution now i install their system may in worst case on a second raspberry pi...