Iot: porting library with Apache 2.0 license

[garciaolais]

Hi

I have a temperature 🌡 sensor mlx90640 and I want to porting this code melexis-mlx90640-library but I am not sure if is possible porting code from Apache-2.0 to MIT.

😕 ❓

[krwq]

cc: @richlander

[krwq]

@garciaolais any chance this sensor is in any way similar to https://github.com/dotnet/iot/tree/master/src/devices/Mlx90614 ? Possibly some of the code can be re-used. If that's the case it might be easier to compare the registers in the spec

EDIT: doesn't seem to be similar

[joperezr]

We should use this issue so that once we have an answer for @garciaolais we should document it somewhere in our README. I believe the answer is that we can't take it, but let's wait for @richlander response.

[krwq]

I think it actually might be allowed but might require 3rd party notice but I'd prefer @richlander to give official answer

[garciaolais]

Workout 🏋

Windows Sample App with multiple temperature palettes 🎨

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I'm still working 🚧 on this device 📷 🌡 if someone finds 👀 this thread I can share the sample code. 😃

PD. The sample is based on code with Apache license.

[richlander]

You can port an Apache 2 library to MIT. You just need to an entry to https://github.com/dotnet/iot/blob/master/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.TXT.