Let me make one point of clarification. We will provide source for those software modules that are GPL open source licensed. Several portions of the software, firmware, drivers, etc. are not GPL and thus are not subject to those rules. There are a number of modules that are not owned by FlexRadio and are also not open source (e.g. FireWire and USB drivers).
Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Gerald Youngblood <[email protected]>wrote: > Paul, > > FlexRadio has continued support the SDR-1000 in new releases of > PowerSDR(TM) for over three years now since the last one shipped for > revenue. The SDR-1000 will be supported in PowerSDR 2.x. You and the other > SDR-1000 owners will have received hundreds of free improvements since the > time you bought the radio. In fact, 2.X is like getting a new radio for > free. I cannot promise that we will fix every single quirk or minor bug > that might relate to the SDR-1000. We do plan to make it work properly on > 2.X to the extent practical within its hardware limitations. > > Paul, if you read carefully the entire text of the official email from > Steve Hicks on the subject, you will see that we will fully comply with GPL. > GPL says that if we are you distribute a binary, we have to make available > the source code for that binary. You are free to request source code for > any binary we release and it will be sent. We also plan to leave the public > SVN as it was when we brought alpha development back in house for some > reasonable time period. > > No other amateur radio transceiver manufacturer on the planet gives you > source code for any of their radios much less ones from which they receive > no revenue. Further, how many firmware upgrades do you see from other > manufacturers for their discontinued products? > > Finally, Paul, if you want source to any binary release just ask and you > shall receive. Simple as that. > > Respectfully, > > Gerald > > > Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR > President and CEO > FlexRadio Systems(TM) > 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 > Austin, TX 78729 > Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 > Email: [email protected] > > Web: www.flex-radio.com > > Tune In Excitement (TM) > > PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Paul Shaffer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > FlexRadio Systems was born of open source software... >> >> Hello, I have not read any of the replies to this entry, >> and I may 180 out of phase with the other customers... >> I'm a little bit negative towards the thrust of your post. >> I have an sdr-1000 and at this point don't plan on buying >> any more Flex radio products. The obsolescence of the >> sdr-1000 has not been handled in a very graceful manner >> in my opinion and my programming bugs and suggestions have been >> ignored. I never got any support for the product through >> the official email channel, but only on the reflector. >> Since I'm a programmer, in future I plan to challenge you >> as per the open source GPL provisions on the licenses. >> I hate that this is turning into an almost adversarial >> confrontation with a corporation. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flexedge mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz >> This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is >> used for posting topics related to SDR software development and >> experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. >> > > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
