2 Jan
2021
2 Jan
'21
1:11 p.m.
On 1/1/21 11:14 pm, John Gilmore via 44Net wrote:
Tony Langdon via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org>
wrote:
If you
read the licence, there are additional use terms, that would
cover production use. I can't see anything there that would prohibit
our use. But still, good point. Anyway, if I'm reading it right, the
licence will change to the Apache licence in 2025.
ZeroTier may be available on OpenWRT (I don't
know if that's the case),
but I highly doubt you'd find it on Cisco. It is available for
Linux, Windows, Android and iOS, and is open source.
I think I see two problems
with ZeroTier.
(1) ZeroTier isn't open source. It uses the "Business Source License
1.1" which only allows "non-production" use without buying a commercial
license. See the README.md in https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne .
(2) ZeroTier uses encryption to tunnel packets around the Internet.
That works great for everybody except for hams whose packets are
transmitted over amateur frequencies. We certainly can't build anything
that requires encryption into the basic 44net infrastructure (as we
evolve it forward), since our whole goal is moving packets over amateur
frequencies.
You wouldn't be using ZeroTier over the air, just like we
don't use IPIP
over the air. You'd setup a bridge or router at the point where radio
meets the Internet, so data is sent in the clear, just like it is now.
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