User Guide online again etc

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User Guide online again etc

Post by VK3KYY » Fri May 07, 2021 6:08 am

Guys

FYI.

AFIK there are no license problems preventing me re-publishing the User Guide, still under the GPL license.

So I have made a new repository just for the User Guide

https://github.com/LibreDMR/OpenGD77_UserGuide



Also.
I have checked the Github, terms and conditions, and its unclear whether I will be able to put the CPS source code back on Github, because the Acceptable Use policy states...

"Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content to any repositories that:"
...
...
"infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right."

The CPS is based on a decompilation of the official CPS, and hence I don't have copyright on the decompiled files. I only have copyight on the new OpenGD77 files which I added..

The same applies to the data sheets.

The Tools that were also part of the old OpenGD77 repo, were also not specifically marked as GPL, even though they were within the OpenGD77 repository which had the GPL license applied globally.

So I will need to republish any necessary Tools into a separate repository, probably under an extended BSD 3 Clause license, which can have extra clauses to prohibit commercial use completely.

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by m1dyp » Fri May 07, 2021 6:49 am

thank you

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by f6fzo » Fri May 07, 2021 6:50 am

Bonjour et merci :mrgreen:

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by VK3KYY » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:25 am

The user guide has been updated


View online: https://github.com/LibreDMR/OpenGD77_Us ... r_Guide.md

PDF version: https://github.com/LibreDMR/OpenGD77_Us ... _Guide.pdf



There may be spelling mistakes and typos in the updated text, as I have to edit it in a plain text editor with no spell checking

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by LY1RF » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:37 am

nothing about spectrum sweep , or i'm blind ?

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by VK3KYY » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:41 am

LY1RF wrote:
Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:37 am
nothing about spectrum sweep , or i'm blind ?
Arrrg. The User Guide was so out of date I had to add loads of things but I forgot to add the spectrum sweep.

I'll write some text now.


BTW.

The guide includes a small feature that is not actually released yet, but you probably didn't notice that ;-)

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by kt4lh » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:59 am

Thank you for maintaining the user guide, even though I'm blind and miss things in it sometimes ;) It's an excellent guide, especially on OpenGD77 that does a lot of function overload on buttons. :)

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by VK3KYY » Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:10 am

I've now added the section for the VFO Spectrum / Sweep scan

Its taken about 4 or 5 hours over several days to bring the User Guide up to date, because I don't think it had been updated for at least 6 months.

Even generating the PDF is a bit of a pain, because the only way to get a decent PDF is to print from the github page, but I have to manally strip out all the github headers and footers.
Its a shame github does not way to just view the core part of the page so it can be printed, but AFIK it doesn't have that feature :-(


There may still be other omissions and also typo's and spelling mistakes.

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by m1dyp » Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:29 pm

thank you

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Re: User Guide online again etc

Post by Ik0nwg » Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:55 am

thanks for the online / pdf guides
Ciao Roger
Sal

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