User Guide online again etc
Posted: 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.
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.