If the FT8 program is running on a separate "loosely coupled" computer
that is internal, I don't see a problem.
Doug --KJ0F
On 3/25/2019 3:59 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
Ummm ... I think there are two issues here: The algorithms, coding,
and modulation schemes for transmitting and receiving what has come to
be known as FT8, and separately, the source code to implement all of
that. The second is subject to the terms of the GPL V3 license, the
first would not seem to be. So, all Elecraft would have to do is
re-invent the WSPR-X FT8 their own proprietary way for whatever
processor they use. Just a few lines of code, should take about a
week. :-)
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 3/25/2019 12:38 PM, Doug Person wrote:
Even if it's just an application installed into an integrated
computer? This would not be folding the source into other code. It's
just installing it into a computer that happens to be inside another
device. It wouldn't be firmware. It would be the same as when I run
it on my Raspberry Pi.
Doug --KJ0F
On 3/25/2019 12:01 PM, Neil Zampella wrote:
FWIW .. the FT8 code is not 'open source' it is under the General
Public
License v3. According to the GPL v3 FAQ:
"You cannot incorporate GPL-covered software in a proprietary system.
The goal of the GPL is to grant everyone the freedom to copy,
redistribute, understand, and modify a program. If you could
incorporate
GPL-covered software into a nonfree system, it would have the effect of
making the GPL-covered software nonfree too."
So in reality, unless the firmware is then made available under the GPL
v3, which I don't see Elecraft doing, you can't use FT8 in the
firmware.
Neil, KN3iLZ
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