tinc devel - Oct 2016 - make tinc as a reusable lib possible?

Hi All,

Is that possible to make tinc as a reusable lib to make it more widely
used in IOT world? and make release an official app for IOS、Android
and windows possible?

Tks.

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 10:18:46PM +0800, Cong Monkey wrote:
> Is that possible to make tinc as a reusable lib to make it more widely
> used in IOT world?
Yes, have a look at MeshLink: https://github.com/meshlink/meshlink
> and make release an official app for IOS、Android and windows possible?
I would love to, but I have no time myself to do that. There is an
unofficial Android app: 

http://tinc_gui.poirsouille.org/

However, it is not very beginner friendly. There's two thing lacking:
editting the configuration files from the app, and being able to run the
app without root privileges. For the latter, the app and maybe tinc
itself might need to be changed to use the VPN API to create a tun
device and to pass it to the tinc daemon. I don't even know if there is
something similar for iOS and/or Windows Phone.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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> However, it is not very beginner friendly. There's two thing lacking:
> editting the configuration files from the app, and being able to run the
> app without root privileges. For the latter, the app and maybe tinc
> itself might need to be changed to use the VPN API to create a tun
> device and to pass it to the tinc daemon. I don't even know if there is
> something similar for iOS and/or Windows Phone.
I am optimism about this, I think all the three platform have enough
VPN API support.

If release as libtinc possible, will that possible that you relicence
TINC as LGPL to make commercial use possible?