Since Alex is asking this question, does that mean there won't be any Mac M1 
builds?

> On Jul 1, 2024, at 8:30 PM, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel 
> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately I found out that this part of the code is actually closed 
> source!  There goes the neighborhood!
> 
> On a serious note however, I’ve been lobbying the wonderful Uwe to please 
> consider keeping the code open source.  The authors are trying to combat 
> Dxpedition pirates, which I sympathize with.  I expressed that I don’t think 
> including binary artifacts in the source code is a wise choice for a number 
> of reasons.  Instead I suggested that they keep their digital signature on 
> their official build machines (secret).  The rest of us will still be able to 
> build the code using the dummy signature that’s in the source tree (or 
> whatever other signature people want to use).  This way folks can still fully 
> build the code for unknown upcoming platforms without depending on pre-built 
> binaries.  
> 
> The trade-off here is that unofficial builds will be just that: they will not 
> contain the official digital signature and therefore will be more suspect.  
> It should be trivial to know which QSOs are signed with the official 
> signature and therefore count.
> 
> Perhaps there is a better way-  I certainly understand wanting to do it this 
> way, and I apologize in advance for any ignorance in my reasoning.
> 
> 73,
> alex K6LOT
> 
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2024, at 2:59 PM, Christoph Berg via wsjt-devel 
>> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Re: Joe Taylor via wsjt-devel
>>> We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.7.0-rc5 is
>>> ready for download and use by beta testers.  This release introduces
>>> SuperFox mode, a powerful new tool designed to help DXpeditions make
>>> digital QSOs at very high rates.
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> where can we find the source code for the foxchk sfrx sftx binaries?
>> We need that so we can continue to upload wsjtx to Debian.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Christoph DF7CB
>> 
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