>From the product brochure: "The entire USRP design is open source, including schematics, firmware, drivers, and even the FPGA and daughterboard designs. When combined with the open source GNU Radio software, you get a completely open software radio system enabling host-based signal processing on commodity platforms. No software or licenses need to be purchased. It provides a complete development environment to create your own radios."
No I wonder, how open is the design? The schematics are published. Is it a bit like GNU open source? Can somebody create EDA files from the schematics, publish them, modify the source, republish, produce own PCB and share the design with other people? Is it a free design, in the sense of "free speech", not "free beer" (the motto of GNU software) ? I had the idea to reduce the complexity of USRP1 by omitting the 2nd channel (so only 1 TX/RX) and integrate a broadband RF tuner on a single board. This would require the freedom to modify the design and share the cost of PCB production. Just for a single PCB it would be too expensive. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
