Re: Announce: new EchoLink Howto
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:27:20 -0500
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:46:56AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:27:05AM -0500, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Hmm. SpeakFreely seems to use the GPL for its license. Therefore
> > > if there's changes to SpeakFreely then the people who have the
> > > binaries from Dave Cameron are entitled to the matching source
> > > code, which they can then give away.
> >
> > I thought so too, but SpeakFreely for Windows (speakfreely.org) and
> > the SpeakFreely for Unix are under different licenses. At least
> > back when Dave started, SF for Unix was Public Domain. So that's
> > the tree he started from.
>
> Ask him to prove it :-) Seriously, we only have his word for that.
Well, from the README in the source available at
http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/unix:
All files in the speakfree root directory are in the public domain:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". I'd appreciate
receiving any bug fixes and/or enhancements, which I'll incorporate in
future versions of the program. Please leave the original attribution
information intact so that credit and blame may be properly
apportioned.
Please see the readme and/or copyright files in the adpcm, celp, des,
gsm, and idea subdirectories for information regarding the
distribution and conditions of use of those components.
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Now this doesn't mean he can't give it away, it just means he doesn't
have to. :)
Now it would be nice if it was open source and it would handle
connection requirments like:
1. if the person at the other end has an amateur radio license
2. if the other end is connected to an RF link
3. if the other end has a good audio connection to the computer
by some sort of a trust relationship (who signed the keys for the other
end) rather than security by obscurity or who bought a board.
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