Hey there,VK3KYY wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:37 pmSources for the GD77 were released ages agoM7PKY wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 10:26 pmDo you foresee a future in which the project will stabilise enough for development to become open again? It would be awesome to contribute changes and get used to the codebase on the fly. I know it used to be before I even knew about it but I don't really understand what the position is even after reading the forum thread unfortunately. Not sure where you guys stand and what your reasoning is for things.
I probably need to create another release with the recent bug fixes, but there haven't been any major changes on the GD77 version
The source code won't every be on Github again becuase of potential legal problems.
Source code license has to be BSD++ because of the wishes of the original developer, Kai DG4KLU and also all the subsequent developers that their work not be used for commericial gain.
People have the option to develop their own versions under the terms of the license.
However to date as far as I'm aware only one person did this, and the result was that they completely rebranded the firmware market it as a completely different firmware, which is against the sprit of the project
I've also recently noticed that the OpenRTx project took all my source code for the Voice Prompts creation, and renamed removing any references to that it was written by me and is copyright me
So when people do this sort of thing, I makes me less and less inclined to share things which take me hundreds of hours of my precious time on earth to produce and make available for the good of people like the blind operators.
I would have sent this as a private message to avoid going too off topic, but it appears this forum doesn't have the facility, that I can access anyway,
Unfortunately, BSD can result in such uses of code in ways you may not intend. In addition the attached license says that the name may not be used to endorse derivatives, so that's probably part of the reason they completely rebranded their work. It would of course be completely inappropriate for the license to be removed, though.
I appreciate the legal concerns of placing the code in GitHub, but may I ask if you have considered running a Web GIT like Gitea or selfhosted GitLab?
Thank you for your continued contributions to the project, it's very much a brilliant alternative to my UV380's stock firmware.