[hpsdr] HPSDR "Project Outline" and TAPR

[Philip Covington]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Dave Larsen <kv0s.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Phil --
>>
>>  I did not say only OHL, NCL is lists as an option of OHL.
>
> The NCL is a separate license from the OHL.  Here is what the TAPR
> website says about it:
>
> "TAPR has created another license, the TAPR Noncommercial Hardware
> License ("NCL"), which is identical to the OHL apart from adding a
> limitation that products based on NCL designs may only be made for
> noncommercial uses."
>
>> I just want the work for HPSDR to be open sources including both hardware
>> and software.  I assume you want HPSDR to be open source as well.  do you
>> have other published open sourse hardware licenses to suggest?
>>
>>  Dave KV0S
>
> I want certain things for HPSDR also.  The problem is that your
> wanting HPSDR to use an open source hardware license and then changing
> the website to say that HPSDR uses the Open Hardware License is the
> same kind of unilateral decision as me changing the hpsdr.org domain
> to point to a new website.  It illustrates the problem of unilateral
> decisions  - including removing a developer's access to the HPSDR Wiki
> (does that sound familiar?).  I realize that we are all volunteers
> here - this could have been better handled by private email, but I am
> still waiting for a response and decision to a private email I sent to
> you and Don...
>
> Phil N8VB
>
Dave,

The latest edits to the "Project Outline" page look much better and
are more in line with how the projects proceed.

Thanks for making these changes.

Phil N8VB

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