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Lyle,<br>
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I agree with you. Let us play the opensource card to the fullest to
energize amateur radio. <br>
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73,<br>
Bill, NJ7P<br>
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:39:38 -0700
From: Lyle Johnson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kk7p@wavecable.com"><kk7p@wavecable.com></a>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] parts kit vs mounted SMT
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I am sure there are for-profit companies that will be wanting to step in
and offer assembled and tested board level products. Being open source,
no one can or should try and prevent them from doing so. Being open
source, there is plenty of opportunity for the marketplace to keep
pricing efficient, especially if we are successful in getting an open
source hardware license structure in place that assures derivative
designs are just as open as the source designs.
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Of course! Let's turn over our (your) copyrights to TAPR. Let's find a way
for them/us to license the IP you generate. Some of these productions like
Mercury, or Gibralter will produce the best state of the art, products in
the world. Why limit them to a 'kit of parts'. I think that TAPR could
manage the income by giving the $ earned in licensing fees to electronics
oriented scholarships or some other beneficial, non-profit donations!
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I respectfully disagree.
I want to give (at least some of) my HPSDR IP to Amateur radio through
an open source model. The IP I contribute, by itself, is insufficient
for the tasks at hand. Working together with others, we can jointly and
severally provide combined IP that potentially has a huge, positive
impact on Amateur radio. Providing it to TAPR for sublicensing could be
perceived as a conflict of interest with my employer(s), or the
employer(s) of other contributors.
By making it all open source, there are no license fees. And anyone who
makes derivative works has to contribute those back to the community.
The contribution back to the community of derivative works is a
leveraging obligation of potentially major significance, and makes the
lack of licensing revenue a reasonable price.
I have no personal issue with TAPR making and selling assembled and
tested boards for HPSDR. I strongly suspect it could be a problem
vis-a-vis their tax-exempt status. That is for the TAPR BoD and their
legal counsel to determine.
I agree that the marketplace will demand assembled and tested boards.
And once we have enough boards working well, and doing interesting
things, the entrepreneurs will see to it that the marketplace is
satisfied. Meanwhile, TAPR will have fulfilled its charter to
jump-start the technology and raise awareness within the Amateur radio
community in a financially responsible and supportive3 way.
Everyone wins.
73,
Lyle KK7P
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