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

[Sylvain Munaut]

I'm pretty sure if you look hard enough you'll find some blocks in GR
that implement or could implement some patented telecom technique ...

The user could also acquire a license on his own (license which btw is
free of charge for low qty).

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Rick Farina <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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