No. The Open G2/linking is FREE Under GPL/Linux and the source code plus instructions on how to build from source code are posted at: SOURCEFORGE
http://dstardextra.sourceforge.net/ It cant get more OPEN than that. What you are reporting is, that some people, were hacking into that old web site, messing up the source code and making life very difficult for all of us, that is why the source code was moved to SOURCEFORGE which is only 100% OPEN SOURCE code respository and it is secure. 73 The D_STAR_Open_Source group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/D_STAR_Open_Source/
