License for our test suites

[Keith]

Hi Harald, Stefan.

I'd just chime in here to say that this is something I've been thinking
about recently and trying to discuss when I get a chance.

The topic of said discussion is whether the time may have come to revise
the FOSS "ethic";

Is there just too much "evilcorp" out there now to justify continuing to
hand them our labour on a plate? - A reference I sometimes use here is
the linux kernel as a base for a certain "evil" surplus collecting and
behaviour modifying robot that was first hawked to the world as a
"liberating" "open-source" project.

Once it had it's evil robot paw on our hearts and minds and those of our
children, it somehow felt the need to become somewhat less open. While I
myself have never added a single line of code or even submitted a bug
report on the linux kernel, I think I would feel somewhat strange about
the above if I had.

Of course, one could point to a lot of projects that retroactively
benefit from open development communities and developers in the pay of
some evilcorp or other have indeed contributed a lot of FOSS!

Still, evilcorp will work in evilcorp's interests and nobody else's.
Yes, there's a type mismatch in that sentence, ( type corp cannot be
compared with type person ), but the point is that as long as FOSS is
good for corp, corp will support it, but corp is getting VERY big these
days and so the days for FOSS (or maybe I should say FOSS that is not in
corp's interest) might be numbered.

So for what it's worth, in principal I'm with Harald, especially given
that I recognise that if I am to continue development on osmocom, I need
to start contributing to the test suites!

I have NO IDEA about the actual licensing issues or what the eventual
license would/should look like. Luckily there are people around here who
are quite expert in that field.

K.