Nate Herzog wrote a masterfully crafted piece on the Vermont 3.0 blog regarding "Open Source Radio" at VPR.
http://www.vermont3.com/2009/04/open-source-radio-behind-the-sounds-at-vermont-public-radio.html#comments *Hold everything. Open Source Radio? Hear me out. Open source, broadly defined — I know there are many different open source models and licenses out there, but broadly defined — has to be three things:* * * *1. Maintained by the community. Check — VPR is supported and financed in large part through the efforts of their listening community* * * *2. Available for free. Check — VPR content is freely available from a variety of sources.* * * *3. Accessible for improvement or modification. In this case, the source code is the story content. I'll get back to this.* Its one thing to play fast and loose with broad definitions -- but to attempt to capture the good will of a development community, a philosophy, and an entire mantra is in poor taste. VPR may be community driven radio -- but to call it "Open Source" only serves to discredit VPR in the eyes of true FOSS developers, and to attempt to promote VPR in a capacity it is not. Stan
