[hpsdr] HPSDR + TAPR + MERCURY

[George Medakovich]

Well, the hpsdr project homepage says the project is using the GNU 
General Public License for software
and references the TAPR Open Hardware License, which, as I read it, says 
anybody can build the hardware
that is under the OHL, etc.. 

The essence of this being an open project, for me as a lurker, is that 
anyone can contribute and otherwise
kibbitz, learning and helping in whatever large or small way they can.

With software projects we are accustomed to seeing source code beginning 
with the earliest stages and the
incremental changes that bring the project to fruition.  I would suppose 
that with hardware, you might expect
to see early schematics, block diagrams, pcb layouts and other such 
design products in a similarly
progressive stream, although there is no rule about how often updates 
need to be published.
(Obviously this is a new experience for me.)

So, maybe there is a little anxiety as the Mercury project progresses 
that the publicly visible part of the
project has not progressed even as we seem to be approaching early 
stages of pcb design.
It would be nice to see what specifics we are currently looking at, if 
only confirmation that nothing has
changed since last May.  And for those of us who are not yet Verilog 
experts, it would be fascinating to
see what the current source looks like.

I don't want to slight the enormous contribution that the main 
participants are making to this project, as a
hobbyist I can stand in awe and appreciation of the amount of 
engineering expertise and investment of
personal time that is going into this effort.

Would it be possible to see some early pcb layouts and source code for 
Mercury published on the wiki
and a little more public discussion of what is happening with this project?

George, ae5ci

Dominic Hawken wrote:
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>> Roger Hayter wrote:
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>>> Not having been involved in this I am genuinely curious.  Are the 
>>> developers making the circuit diagrams for Mercury open source/copyright 
>>> free?  If so, presumably anyone can lay out their own board, make it and 
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>> Please, please, please!  Open Source does NOT equate to "Copyright Free"!!!
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> And nothing in the above sentence suggests that.
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> Dominic.
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