A license doesn’t have to be copyleft to be FOSS. Stop trying to redefine things because you don’t like them.
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
BTW, Meshcore is MIT and not fully FOSS, while Meshtastic is GPL.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That’s not what I did. Not all of Meshcore is FOSS. There are proprietary components.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Oh sorry, I thought “Meshcore is MIT” meant it was all MIT.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
All good!
I still value GPL much higher than MIT, which is why I thought important for others to know, in case they have a preference too. But yeah, Meshcore is just not all open source and some people could also have a preference on that. 😄
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And both use LoRa which is proprietary.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Fact, but since that’s common and cheap, and I’m not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I’d go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I believe the only part of Meshcore that’s not FOSS is the official app, and there’s a FOSS alternative.
Personally, I’d use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered “test” messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).
MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages.
sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub 1 day ago
That’s interesting. I had the same experience with Meshtastic - I ran it for a few months and almost all I saw were test messages and comments about the weather. That encourages me to dig out my radio bits and try MC 😆
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.