Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio LiveDVD 2013-1110 (based on 3.7.2)

[Rick Farina]

On 11/12/2013 04:21 PM, Rafael Diniz wrote:
> Hi Zero,
> 
> You're wrong.

I'm certainly not perfect but if you bother to look at Dream's website:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drm/index.php?title=Main_Page

You will notice they say these words, all in red, on a line by themselves:

"Although this software is distributed as free software under the terms
of the GPL this does not mean that its use is free of rights of others.
The use may infringe third party IP and thus may not be legal in some
countries."

I would strongly discourage anyone from distributing code that is
violating someone else's IP.  The code is gpl, that's great, but since
it is violating (if I had to guess a US patent) IP knowingly, it puts
anyone distributing it at risk.  I know I for one won't be distributing
such code with my livecd which contains GnuRadio.  Obviously anyone else
can do what they think is best.

Amazing what you notice when you read something...

-Zero

> Dream can be distributed as it's GPL licensed. All the code is GPL, except 
> concerning the AAC codec (FAAC and FAAD2), but you don't need to distribute 
> it 
> together with dream, as it dlopen()'s the AAC library dinamically (so you can 
> install AAC "live"). Most windows and linux dream distributions just do not 
> place the AAC together, and recommend you to just install it separatelly 
> (from 
> rarewares or a simple script that downloads the source and compile it).
> 
> Also, for the purpose of lab testing, modulation/demodulation, I don't even 
> use 
> the AAC codec, as it also comes with the great Opus codec, which is much 
> better 
> than the FAAC AAC LC encoder.
> 
> Best regards,
> Rafael Diniz
> 
> Em ter 12 nov 2013, às 16:57:17, Rick Farina escreveu:
>> Sadly Dream appears to be an "open source" implementation of a protocol
>> that is licensed and has no rights allowing for a decoder.  While you
>> may choose to use it, sadly, distributing it on a livecd would be very
>> unintelligent as it would make the distributor legally liable for
>> breaching the license most likely.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zero
>>
>> On 11/12/2013 11:40 AM, Rafael Diniz wrote:
>>> Johnathan,
>>> It would be nice to include Dream and gr-drm, for DRM support in the next 
>>> LiveDVD.
>>> ; )
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Rafael Diniz
>>>
>>> Em seg 11 nov 2013, às 05:31:48, Johnathan Corgan escreveu:
>>>> The GNU Radio LiveDVD has been updated:
>>>>
>>>> http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/iso/ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64-
>>> gnuradio-2013-1110.torrent
>>>>
>>>> Based on the Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 64-bit operating system, the GNU Radio
>>>> LiveDVD is a bootable SDR environment suitable for demonstration and
>>>> experimentation, contained on a read-only medium.
>>>>
>>>> This release now has:
>>>>
>>>> * GNU Radio release 3.7.2
>>>> * Ettus Research uhd snapshot 3.5.4-157-g7641b42
>>>> * gqrx snapshot v2.2.0-51-g6e30181
>>>> * gr-air-modes commit g585ecf1 ('next' branch)
>>>> * gr-iqbal snapshot v0.37.1-5-gd4fd4dd
>>>> * gr-osmosdr snapshot v0.1.0-44-g0d10f5e
>>>> * hackrf snapshot v2013.07.1-59-gbef5835
>>>> * libosmo-dsp v0.3
>>>> * osmo-sdr snapshot v0.1-7-gcd37e9fa
>>>> * rtl-sdr snapshot v0.5.1-14-g360dd36
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Johnathan Corgan, Corgan Labs
>>>> SDR Training and Development Services
>>>> http://corganlabs.com
>>>>
>>>
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