On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Johnathan Corgan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Martin Braun <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Since you're not the copyright holder of the original code, you have no
>> way of transferring said copyright to the FSF.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the correct way to do this is. An out-of-tree approach
>> will definitely work, since the licenses are compatible according to
>> lists provided by e.g. the FSF.
>> If the authors would agree to a copyright transfer of this copy of the
>> code, that'll also work but it's annoying to get that.
>
>
> ​While all the above is true, we do occasionally make exceptions for
> including non-FSF owned code inside GNU Radio, as long a the licenses are
> compatible.  We try to avoid this as much as possible and have actually
> been removing such code a little at a time as it becomes possible.​
>
> In this case, I don't think we'd want to include it, but I wanted to
> clarify the above.​
>
> --
> Johnathan Corgan
> Corgan Labs - SDR Training and Development Services
> http://corganlabs.com
>


I agree with Johnathan. While this is really great work, Stefan, I'm not
sure it's worth any great hassle on our part to manage it. I'm mostly
saying this because I don't see where this would be used in large part in
real-world applications. Most of our randomness is necessary in
simulation-based flowgraphs. While it's always good to speed up your
simulation, it's not something that's absolutely critical.

I think the best case scenario is that we get the copyright agreement from
the original author. Barring that, if you provide a compelling enough case
for including it within GNU Radio's source code as opposed to an OOT
project, we can discuss and reconsider.

Tom
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