AGPLv3 License

[raymeskhoury]

Hi there,

Firstly, this is a great piece of software. Thank you. I have already started looking at using this software in my project and will likely make some upstream contributions for bug fixes in the coming weeks.

Regarding the license - I am wondering whether an AGPLv3 license is your preference or whether it was only used due to the license of headunit-reloaded being AGPLv3? I noticed that the author of headunit-reloaded mentioned the possibility of relicensing the original code in their LICENSE file. If we were able to contact them and they were willing to change their license, would you also be willing to change yours? Or do you like having it be AGPLv3?

Cheers

[tsabaia]

I don't understand much about this, but what's the benefit of changing the license?

[andreknieriem]

And you are mixing the projects :)

Headunit is from Mike Reidis, who reverse engeneered all Android Auto Protocol and built an very early app, which works on android 4. He died, but his source code is still public visible and linked in the Readme.

After Mike died, Emil "reloaded" Headunit and created Headunit Reloaded with more features and versions and made it a paid closed source version with the later WiFi Launcher.

After 2 years and non working on my headunit I found the original Code from mike and "revived" it and call it Headunit revived. Because Headunit Reloaded is closed source, this two projects have nothing in common except of course the same source project.

I am not a lawyer but I think, I need the same licence as mike does. So that is why it has this license.