Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] License information for modules on CGRAN?

[Martin Braun]

Hey N,

that's a good point. Of course, you can browse to every repo and check
there, but license info is an important thing and should be a top-level
piece of info.

A couple of things: Yes, gr-oots are always GPLv3 because of their
derivation from GNU Radio itself. But we host other things than GNU
Radio OOTs on CGRAN, and they could have other licenses.

Let me also note that the current CGRAN is a piece of code that is not
really maintained any more. A bunch of volunteers have set out to
replace it with something else, but I'm not sure what the current status
of that is.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12/21/2017 11:19 AM, N. Jackson wrote:
> The summary information for modules on CGRAN seems to lack a field
> stating the license under which a module has been released. This
> seems to me to be one of the most important pieces of information
> about the software, so the information should be readily available
> (without having to navigate to the repository and examine all the
> source files).
> 
> Is one safe to assume that all the modules are licensed under the
> GPLv3? If so, then perhaps CGRAN should say so on the main page.
> If not, then a license field in the summary information for each
> package seems necessary.
> 
> Or is this information already there and I'm just not using the
> interface correctly?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> N.
> 
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