On 2/7/16 11:13 AM, G1FEF wrote:
Bryan, I’m not complaining, I was just replying to Rob’s complaint. I’m quite happy with the way it is. As I said, it is completely open to the amateur radio community, just not the general public as it doesn’t need to be. I’m perfectly happy to continue to bug fix and develop the code as a background project, but if you, or others, want things doing differently or quicker then you are very welcome to contribute to the project.
Chris,
The issue is most are unwilling to contribute to a proprietary project. I know others have brought this up before saying they would contribute if it was open source. An example: Tom Hayward, KD7LXL said on Jan 13, 2016 "If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week."
You don't get to say it's open source and freely available just to hams; that's doublespeak. It is de facto closed proprietary software no matter how you want to spin it. https://opensource.org/osd
The bigger issue is 44net relying on a piece of software without a defined license. You could stop development of it and that would be the end of it. There is no legal way we'd be able to use your code and continue to develop it going forward.
I've seen this happen with countless other amateur radio developed projects, and don't want to see it happen once again. I understand wanting to retain control of this, but the only way it's going to grow. You're the founder and the architect, that's not going to change.
If you wish to see unprecedented development of the portal happen, you must open source it.