License question about qzcompanionnordictracktreadmill HOT 19 CLOSED

you're right, i didn't check the license terms yet. please keep me pinged on this :)

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And last but not least: could I install "any" Android app on such a thread mill?

as far as i know yes, but on this i will leave the microphone to @victorypoint

Technically yes if you can access the treadmill OS and/or ADB shell. User support and possibly warranty will likely be void if the machine OS fails and can't be recovered or reset.

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Hi @IzzySoft , yes i didn't decide yet :)
Also i'm planning to add this project also directly built in qz via this pr cagnulein/qdomyos-zwift#1094

Anyway I will keep your suggestion in mind! Thanks :)

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Sure, thanks!

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Will do. Shall I, to give you some incentive, shorten the interval between the pings each time? 🙈 💨

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That's basically the thing, yes. Especially as long as you are the sole contributor (you then could even change the license any time, affecting the code from that point on but not before). Only if you had other contributors and want to change the license, you'd technically need to ask each of them if they agree – as they agreed to the terms at the time of their contributions.

So far for "legal" – for "technical" it should suffice to add the file to the root of your project, giving it the name LICENSE (Github should then detect it fine). It's quite common to also reference it from the header of each code file (a la "under the terms of the AGPL, see the LICENSE file in the project root" or similar) – but that's no strict requirement. To make clear you mean "or-later", pick the corresponding phrase in your Readme (see the "standard license header" at the end of https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html). Without that it'd be "AGPL-3.0-only" – depends on your preference (personally, I always choose "only" as I don't like to bind myself to something I couldn't read before signing 😉).

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If it shall be AGPL-3.0-only it looks perfect, yes – thanks a lot!

yes :)

A few short questions: Did I understand correctly your app is going to be installed on the mill

yes

– and there's another app to be used as "counter-part" on the smartphone/tablet?

yes

Is the latter also available open-source – and are there some screenshots (and a dedicated icon) for your app?

yes also open source https://github.com/cagnulein/qdomyos-zwift

And last but not least: could I install "any" Android app on such a thread mill?

as far as i know yes, but on this i will leave the microphone to @victorypoint

also @IzzySoft a question for you: how can the user download this apk from your repository? do you have have a quick howto?

are you updating the apk automatically?

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Phantastic all! Let me go top-down:

• yes, yes, yes, yes: yeah, yeah, yeah, picked-as-well 🤣
• maybe: OK, I'll wait – that one was just out of curiosity. I was thinking whether it would be possible to install an F-Droid client on the mill as well.
• download & install with an F-Droid client (directly on the device) – or as here, use a web browser to download the APK. URLs (become valid in about an hour with the next sync): QZ Companion Nordictrack Treadmill, qdomyos-zwift (both link to each other to make it easier for the interested folks to find the counter-part). Does this need a howto? I certainly can find one for you then 😃
• auto-update: for this app here it is enabled (as soon as you tag a new release and attach an APK to it, my updater will find and pull it within 24h). For the other one: Will there be updates? The last one was 2020. I'd then need the APK attached to releases I can recognize (you have different ones there for MacOS etc), e.g. android-<versionCode>. Btw, the ZIP of the latest release suggests a v1.1.0, but the APK says 1.0.

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Thanks for your fast response! Good to know you have it on your list 😃 Please let me know once you've decided, so I can add your app to my repo, to make it easier to find, install and keep updated – without the need of any walled gardens.

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No pressure, just a heads-up: any chance for a decision in the nearFuture™? 😃

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@IzzySoft probably https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html will be one, what do you think?

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Totally fine, yes! If a server component is affected and you want to prevent some "big tech" from "consuming" (think "?aaS"), maybe AGPL instead (only difference is AFAIR that AGPL requires to publish changes even if you just use them with a "service"). But if that doesn't matter, your choice sounds excellent!

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thanks @IzzySoft so AGPL would be better! In order to "use" it, i just need to put the license file in the root of the project? sorry but i'm completely out of the license world, i'm just writing code :)

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thanks @IzzySoft !
@victorypoint as co parent of this project, are you ok with this?

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@IzzySoft ok I guess I did this right 789daa2

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If it shall be AGPL-3.0-only it looks perfect, yes – thanks a lot!

A few short questions: Did I understand correctly your app is going to be installed on the mill – and there's another app to be used as "counter-part" on the smartphone/tablet? Is the latter also available open-source – and are there some screenshots (and a dedicated icon) for your app? And last but not least: could I install "any" Android app on such a thread mill?

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warranty will likely be void

well, wouldn't that already apply when installing this very companion here? But yes, usual disclaimer: "Dragons here!" 😉

That said: Do you want me to open an issue with the smartphone/tablet pendant for future releases, tags, versionName etc? This one here has been successfully solved and can be closed I guess.

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Do you want me to open an issue with the smartphone/tablet pendant for future releases, tags, versionName etc?

yes sure! please go on!

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Done, thanks!

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