[hpsdr] finding more participants / developers

Lyle Johnson kk7p at wavecable.com
Sun May 3 20:36:26 PDT 2009


>     The NCL does not prevent a for-profit company from producing the
>     design.  It simply requires that they obtain *permission* from the
>     hardware designers to produce the design.  Of course, the owners of
>     the intellectual property expressed in the design may decide to
>     withhold such permission.
> 
> 
> It requires that they obtain permission?

For commercial purposes, yes.  It's all spelled out in the NCL.

For hobbyist/community purposes, anyone can build up to five per year.

Naturally, my hope is that once the initial TAPR run is complete, the 
design will change to OHL.  But there is no such requirement.

73,

Lyle KK7P


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