[hpsdr] HPSDR wiki - disclaimer, etc

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Richard, thanks for that work.

I won't comment on the technical points, but on the license issues:

1.  I think the group needs to decide whether OHL/NCL is *mandatory* for 
an HPSDR project.  I personally believe that requiring HPSDR hardware 
and software to be open source is the right answer, but I'm not sure 
there's ever been a discussion to determine whether that is the 
consensus of the group.  I am not sure I would explicitly require named 
licenses, because (a) someone might come up with an alternative that's 
better than OHL/NCL, and (b) on the software front there are numerous 
choices (in particular, I think each author should have the freedom to 
choose between a copyleft license like the GPL, and a less restrictive 
open source license like the BSD or MIT licenses).

2.  I think you raise a really good point about the license for the web 
site and wiki.  That decision should probably be left to the system and 
web administrators, but personally I like the Creative Commons license 
for its simplicity.  Another alternative is the language I wrote for 
febo.com: http://www.febo.com/copyright.html which covers more than just 
the copyright piece of the web puzzle (but doesn't really address the 
wiki aspect by talking about rights to modify the web site itself; 
however, I'm not sure if that is a critical requirement or not.  If Don 
or Dave want to adapt that page for openhpsdr.org, that's fine with me.

John
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Richard Ames said the following on 05/03/2009 08:22 AM:
> I have been doing some editing.....
> 
> Please look at the disclaimer and see if it reflects the communities
> desires:
> http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=HPSDRwiki:General_disclaimer it is
> stolen directly from the licenses.
> 
> Links to help pages: http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Contents
> 
> Incorporated Gerd's good info on humidity and the FPGAs:
> http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Altera_Cyclone_FPGA
> 
> What should the license for the wiki content be? It is yet to be
> written:
> http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=HPSDRwiki:Copyrights&action=edit&redlink=1
> 
> I have made two suggestions, see:
> http://hpsdr.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:VK2NRA/sandbox
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
> 

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