Re: RFS: ax-emergency-listen
If there is a problem with these particular restrictions, then there is a
problem with all the ham radio stack in the kernel and the other utilities
and programs for reception/transmission of amateur radio since you (legally)
need an amateur radio license to transmit on amateur radio frequencies.
The APRS specification is available to the public, and anyone is free to
implement it in software.
It looks like the software in question is just an extension of aprsmon that
reacts to emergency traffic on the APRS data stream.
Aprsmon is already available in the Debian package aprsdigi.
Pat
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:48:41PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> Reading the link of the software I read:
> "The use of the APRS® Internet Gateway subsystem is allowed only for licensed radio amateur operators. APRS® is a registered trademark of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR."
>
> How does it fit with the GPL or the Debian requirements for free software?
> I have not read the full license of APRS but it seems that we could face some problems there...
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
> Jaime
>
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