Re: [digitalradio] Licensing of Pactor modes - Source code and detailed specifications
- Original Message - From: f6cte [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, you can directly use the code without understand it but it is not the way I do because it is without interest. One main reason why PSK became so popular was that source code was made available early on. Many have implemented PSK31 using Moe's PSKCore DLL without fully understanding how it works. Making source available will increase the probability of the mode being adopted by other developers. Myself I have used a lot of code from fldigi in my own software, currently I am adding SSTV using another open source project as the basis of the SSTV decoding. There is so much work involved in writing a fool-proof program with a good user interface that having to also write the encoding / decoding interface would make sure projects unfeasible for a single programmer who codes in his spare time. Simon HB9DRV
Re: [digitalradio] Licensing of Pactor modes - Source code and detailed specifications
There is so much work involved in writing a fool-proof program with a good user interface that having to also write the encoding / decoding interface would make sure projects unfeasible for a single programmer who codes in his spare time. Simon HB9DRV I can second that :) Rein PA0R -- http://pa0r.blogspirit.com Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at http://www.obriensweb.com/drsked/drsked.php View the DRCC numbers database at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/database Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[digitalradio] Licensing of Pactor modes - Source code and detailed specifications
Hello Demetre and all, writers who although they allow everyone to use their program, they keep their code to themselves. Of course it is everyone's right to protect their code and I do not blame anyone here, I am just stating a fact. As I belong to this category (Multipsk author), here is my opinion about that. The source code is good but it is much better to have the detailed specifications. When I have only the source code, it is an ordeal to reverse engineers the detailed specifications from the source code. Do you imagine, if you have 10 lines of code, the amount of work it is to extract what it is important... However, you can directly use the code without understand it but it is not the way I do because it is without interest. So my philosophy is to supply detailed specifications to give possibility for others to be able to program their own decoding application. It's what I have ever done (included for ARQ FAE). Moreover, I think it is moral that a programmer has to do a bit of work to decode a mode. I saw that a professional decoder decodes some of my modes simply with my published specifications. And I'm quite sure that if I had published the source code but not the specifications, he would not have decoded those modes. So in conlusion, PSE don't keep on thinking that, naturally, if you have the code you have all the necessary. It is a false idea. 73 Patrick Note: in Pactor 1, you have detailed specifications...this mode can be decoded and I've done it (however, for an pure ARQ mode, there are some lacks). In Pactor 2 and 3: you have general specifications but not the detailed ones, so these modes can't be decoded.
