Am I allowed to charge a company for a web platform of sensors if the data is sent trough Meshtastic devices?

[adrianTNT]

Hello.
I had a look at the license but I don't fully understand it, besides being kind of long :D
Can someone clarify if (from Meshtastic's point of view) I am allowed to do this?

• deploy meshtastic nodes (bought by me) around an area
• add sensors to given nodes
• make a web platoform with centralised data from these sensors
• charge a company to have access to that web platform
• (while leaving nodes operate normally extending public Meshtastic network)

[RCGV1]

GPLv3 allows you to commercially use the software just any changes you make or any software you make using any of the Meshtastic libraries needs to be open sourced. Also if you were to do something like this go on your own private encrypted channel (different frequency than public) to prevent you sensor traffic from clogging up the mesh.

[adrianTNT]

Thanks.
(I am ~new to Meshtastic). This is not related to my initial question, but reading your answer I realise that ... other people's nodes that are not on my private channels will not repeat / mesh the messages of my channel, no? For my own private channel the notes will only carry message further between my own nodes? But direct device to device private messages are always forwarded from one stranger node to another regardless of what channels the nodes are on?