Re: [HCDX] Proposdal for Open Source project for HF receiver control

["Keith" <n6jpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 16 Feb 2002 at 20:59, Jan Arkesteijn wrote:

> I invite everybody having programming facilities and interested in the
> development of HF receiver control software to let me know, what
> you think about this proposal. and to share with me what your ideas 
> are about the next steps to take to get this 'of the ground'.

 Hi Jan,
 You could go the GPL route, however the licensing agreements 
that software vendors and writers use have been rejected by the courts
as non-binding. The only way you can protect your software is by patents,
something the EU doesn't allow and the USA will allow patents on a
c == x line. 
 You have to consider the end users that are interested in your product and
for the most part hams, scanner listeners & SWL's are not very likely to
abuse your open source software. The major companies already have very good
coders and are not likely to even use your product. 
 Good luck with whatever you decide and I support a move to OSS so that
others can openly improve and change your code for their needs. 


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