Reticulum maintainer Mark Qvist published a blunt reply to Leo Gaggl’s September 5 critique of the mesh-networking project’s licensing, arguing that the campaign against its custom license is really an attempt to delegitimize the reference implementation and install alternative ports as its successor. Reticulum replaced MIT in April 2025 with a custom license that permits use and modification but forbids use in systems designed to harm people and in AI or machine-learning training datasets, a change critics say leaves the project non-free and complicates Linux distribution packaging. Qvist says he is answering the conduct rather than the licensing argument and points readers to his long-form rebuttal of the criticism.
Reticulum's maintainer answers the license critics in 'Yes, I Am Angry'
Reticulum maintainer Mark Qvist published a blunt reply to Leo Gaggl's September 5 critique of the mesh-networking project's licensing, arguing that the campaign against its custom license is really an attempt to delegitimize the reference implementation and install alternative ports as its successor. Reticulum replaced MIT in April 2025 with a custom license that permits use and modification but forbids use in systems designed to harm people and in AI or machine-learning training datasets, a change critics say leaves the project non-free and complicates Linux distribution packaging. Qvist says he is answering the conduct rather than the licensing argument and points readers to his long-form rebuttal of the criticism.
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