Joe,
Many thanks to you and the team for your continued dedication to the
development of WSJT-X.
73,
Bob Nobis - N7RJN
n7...@nobis.net
> On Jun 23, 2016, at 05:38, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu [wsjtgroup]
> <wsjtgroup-nore...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> From: Joe Taylor, K1JT, on behalf of the WSJT development group
>
> From time to time we try to bring everyone up-to-date on activities and
> plans of the WSJT Development group.
>
> Since December 12, 2015, Version 1.6.0 has been the latest fully
> supported general release of WSJT-X. It now has several thousand
> regular users. If you are using an earlier version of WSJT-X, we
> recommend upgrading to v1.6.0.
>
> The active code development branch for WSJT-X is presently called
> Version 1.7. More than 50 users have been compiling code revisions of
> v1.7 for themselves and using it on the air. New features in Version
> 1.7 (some still experimental) include these:
>
> 1. Submodes JT65B, JT65C are fully implemented.
> 2. A new "FT" decoder for JT65; patented KVASD no longer used.
> 3. JT65 offers signal subtraction and two-pass decoding.
> 4. Further improvements to the JT65, JT4, JT9, and WSPR decoders.
> 5. Many improvements to Rig Control.
> 6. Improved conveniences for automatic EME Doppler tracking.
> 7. A download facility for sample files.
> 8. Save/Restore facility for multiple configurations.
> 9. New modes: ISCAT, JT9 "wide and fast modes", JTMSK (experimental)
> 10. Optional auto-sequencing for fast modes.
> 11. Optional automatic QSYs in response to "CQ nnn" in fast modes.
>
> We are experimenting with two additional modes optimized for meteor
> scatter and EME. These modes, pioneered especially by Steve Franke
> (K9AN) and Nico Palermo (IV3NWV) use "low density parity check (LDPC)
> codes" -- one of the latest areas of active research in communication
> theory.
>
> We hope to be ready to make a candidate release of v1.7 later this
> summer. It will probably contain most (if not all) of the above features.
>
> Because of some recent issues with other users and would-be users of our
> code, I will end with several comments that may help to clarify our
> copyright and licensing policies.
>
> 1. All programs in the WSJT project are open source and licensed under
> the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 3. We think this policy
> serves the best interests of Amateur Radio. Open source makes it easy
> for others to read and learn from our code, and to suggest improvements.
> The GPL means that anyone may copy, use, modify, or adapt our code for
> their own personal use, in any way they choose. It is permissible to
> use our code (or code adapted or translated from our code) in a program
> made for wider distribution, whether you charge for the program or not,
> but in such cases the distributed program's licensing must also conform
> to the GPL. Note that our code uses some libraries and algorithms which
> are themselves GPL licensed.
>
> 2. For added emphasis: It is NOT permissible to use our code (or code
> based on ours, a so called "derivative work") in any program unless that
> program is itself licensed with terms compatible with the GNU Public
> License (GPL), Version 3 or later.
>
> 3. Development branches in our source code repository may sometimes
> include code to implement experimental protocols or modes. Anyone is
> welcome to study such code and to experiment with it, at home. But
> please do *not* use undocumented modes on the air, or enable others to
> do so, before a formal announcement that they are ready for use. We
> prefer to do our development work in the open, using our public
> repository, rather than going "underground" during early phases of
> development.
>
> -- 73, Joe, K1JT (for the WSJT Development Group)
>
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