[hpsdr] Which projects are available under OHL?

[Dave Larsen]

Rob--

  On the Support webpage, I try to state the license that each author 
currently want applied the each project.  this is the best place to put 
the information such as the schematic and gerber files, which are the 
information necessary to reproduce the board.

I know several that are currently NCL because of the initial investment 
of TAPR that will change to OHL at some point in the future.  TAPR 
president has state on this list they do not want to be a long term 
provider of these boards.  They are interested the investing in the 
development of broads that are proposed to them.  They have state a 
strong support for the HPSDR project.

PLEASE NOTE the HPSDR project does not own the copyright to the boards 
or software presented here.  The authors own that and they make the 
choice as to the license they wish to use.  To participate in HPSDR they 
must make the project open source at least as a non-commercial license 
so that an experimenter can use the documents to make a board for 
themselves.

   Dave, KV0S

Rob Frohne wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I went looking at the openhpsdr.org web site and the wiki and couldn't 
> easily find which boards are available under OHL.  Can someone point 
> me to the right place?  It would be nice if the sames places that it 
> prominently says "Available from TAPR" it could say "License: OHL" or 
> "License: NCL" or whatever the license is.
>
> Also, an editorial suggestion on the note that reads *
>
> Available*
>
> in PCB form only from TAPR <http://www.tapr.org/kits_ozy.html>
>
> Perhaps that should read "In PCB form only, from TAPR" as opposed to 
> "In PCB form, only from TAPR" assuming I understand the desired meaning.
>
> The reason the license is important to me is that I don't particularly 
> want to spend my time on projects that are NCL or depend on subparts 
> that are NCL, even if the NCL is meant to help TAPR.  Phil C. has made 
> his point on that, very clear to me.  If an SDR project is to succeed, 
> the hardware has to be readily available at a reasonable price.  In 
> order for that to happen, we have to be free to mass produce the 
> hardware.  If mass production is choked, software developers and other 
> hardware developers won't want to put the time in developing for that 
> platform, because its future is in question.
> Thanks,
>
> Rob, KL7NA
>


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Dave Larsen, KVØS
Columbia, MO USA


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