On 16/12/2015 00:48, Joe Taylor wrote: > Important note to those who have been compiling and using code at the > head of the WSJT-X Development branch, also known as "Version 1.7": > > REVISION 6278 IS TEST CODE, NOT INTENDED FOR ON-THE-AIR USE. PLEASE > RESPECT THIS REQUEST AND DO NOT USE IT FOR NORMAL OPERATION. > > -- 73, Joe, K1JT > Further to this:
to the members and owner of the Facebook group that has been flagrantly disregarding Joe's copyright and licence on WSJT-X by continuing to publish binary packages of WSJT-X built from the development sources. You allowed me to join your closed group and even to point out that you should not be doing what you are, in the past. But now when I politely request that you take down the latest build because of the above request, you ban me. This is childish, I had no malicious intent, we are fellows in the Amateur Radio community - or are we not? To those taking advantage of the apparently freely available stream of development binary packages of WSJT-X from the above source and others, be aware that the GPLv3 Open Source Licence that WSJT-X is released under does not allow binary distribution of the product without the permission of the copyright holder. There is no ambiguity, doing this is not just taking advantage, it is almost certainly breaking laws. We, the development team, understand that you all want to get access to the latest changes. This is possible if you build the application yourself but with that comes a responsibility, you must take note of what the latest changes are and the developers opinion of stability and fitness for purpose. We collaborate on our development work on a public source code repository, we have nothing to hide, we do not exclude anyone. With that openness comes an opportunity for free loaders to take advantage, that is the price that Free Open Source developers pay for doing their work in public. Please respect our requests, they are for a good reason. You would be a fool to break into your favourite car manufacturers R&D facility and borrow the latest prototype to drive your children to school every day. If you want to be part of what Joe K1JT is giving to the Amateur Radio community then respect his requests. 73 Bill G4WJS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
