Hello Joe,
.
I am always open for communication and there are my answers to the raised
questions:
.
1. Let me know, please, what shall I do to get JTDX licensed in the compatible
to GPL v3 manner.
.
2. JTDX being published on the JTDX Web site
http://www.qrz.lt/ly3bg/JTDX/jtdx.html, any other resource just copying
information from this site, some resources keeping very old software versions.
There is a little I can do, but will try
to raise questions to owners of these resources to replace old information with
the appropriate one.
.
3. I will ask owners to delete this old screenshot.
.
4. What mainwindow title is acceptable to be compliant to the GPL v3?
Current one is 'JTDX v17.6 WSJT-X v1.7 based HF version by UA3DJY' and I don't
mind to delete
my callsign from the title, just let me know, please, what title will be
acceptable from your point of view.
.
6. It being still caused my little experience in the software programming
tools, I have been an engineer in the soul and
still using my radio frequency experience to work with the code. I have nothing
to hide: complete and working source code, full of comments,
being published with every new JTDX version on the JTDX Web site, so everyone
could take, read, modify and build and use it.
I simply do not know how to publish it on svn or git repository, and most of my
time going to the further JTDX development with
little space remaining to get knowledge about the svn.
.
Also I would be glad to bring JTDX back to WSJT-X team to handle it as WSJT-X
HF fork, as only team work could keep
any software alive.
.
I am within several hours of v17.6 public release, let me know please if I
shall delete any part of the main window title.
.
73 Igor
.
.
>Hi Igor,
>
>.....
>
>While I have your attention, I must remind you of obligations you
>assumed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) when you copied the
>source code of WSJT-X, made some changes, and renamed it as
>"JTDX vXX.X ... by UA3DJY".
>
>1. Compliance with GPL requires that a derivative work (such as JTDX)
>must be licensed in a compatible manner. Just saying "It is open source
>software distributed under the GPL v3 license" is not enough.
>
>Apparently a significant fraction of JTDX distribution takes place from
>the web site http://jt65-dx.com/download/wsjtx-ua3djy.html .
>
>2. I see nothing on that web site mentioning any license requirement.
>
>3. I see a JTDX screen shot in which the main window title is given as
>"WSJT-X v1.7.0-devel JTDX v16.6 ... by UA3DJY." We have never released
>a program called "WSJT-X v1.7.0-devel", so I would not expect to see
>such a designation on a derivative work.
>
>4. Describing JTDX as "by UA3DJY" is surely misleading, and a violation
>of the copyrights on our code. Probably >90% of code in your derivative
>work was written by someone other than yourself.
>
>6. Finally: if you were truly committed to the Free Open Source Software
>(FOSS) philosophy, I would expect your development work to be organized
>in a way so that can give back to, as well as take from, the amateur
>software development community. I can see no evidence that you are
>doing this, for example with an open source-code repository.
>
> -- 73, Joe, K1JT
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