If I understand the URL correctly, the source code of SCAMP should have been released and could have been demanded under the legal copyright of the GPL.
As it was, it was deliberately set up with timers to self destruct after a few weeks or months. So even though some of us had the .exe for a while, it was no longer operable. Some of us have been waiting for several years but there has been no further work on this mode that I know of on the newsgroup we are on. I can 't say enough good things about SCAMP because it solved most of the problems that we had with providing an ARQ mode and high speed, and busy frequency detection. The only drawback was that it could only operate with good signals and had no fall back position. If their programmer could have continued working on it, I am confident that a fallback mode would have been possible. Unfortunately, with such a closed system, they needed to work on the reconstruction of the inner workings of the Winlink 2000 system with the new CMS system and now the RMS's being developed and a sound card mode to replace Pactor 3 is just not a high priority item. And when you only have one person, even if they are a spectacular programmer, you only have so many hours in a day that they can give to the cause. With the ARRL proposal, I would expect that any successful mode would be used for Winlink 2000, but more importantly, for other digital modes, both keyboarding and higher speed file transfer and for development of new e-mail systems that are more adaptable, locatable, and much less fragile than the Winlink 2000 system. Tomorrow our county AR Club will be continuing its training on packet, digital, and specifically the Winlink 2000 system. Although Winlink 2000 can be useful for casual use for traveling radio amateurs, it is not well suited for emergency communications. Even though we are primarily interested in emergency communications, I like to thing that it is helpful to understand the design of the system. Many of our local hams are newer and some have told me that they are not clear about the difference between the Winlink, NTS/D, and Winlink 2000 systems and how they evolved. 73, Rick, KV9U Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowModNDA > > So the FSF says no. As Dave points out, I don't know that this has been > taken to court. However, in this case among, it would be unlikely to go > to court. I was serious in suggesting that perhaps Bruce Perens (who is a > ham and a Linux activist) would be interested. > > Leigh/WA5ZNU > >> In other words, once you release an alpha or beta, do you have to >> provide source source to everyone else? Or does it have to be a >> finalized and released code? >> >> 73, >> >> Rick, KV9U >> >> > > > > > Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster > telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > > Our other groups: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
