Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

> Alexander is asking excellent questions and I'm surprised at the tepid
> response -- he's got like 4 replies so far? He's the prototype GNU
> radio user who needs to maintain his group's IP, he should be
> receiving "how to's", not "INALs". -Jeff
Actually, IANAL is a perfectly-valid response. IP licensing
arrangements are complicated and studded with sinkholes and minefields.

I've avoided the issue (I hope!) in my proprietary "stuff" that uses Gnu
Radio by doing two things:

o minimizing the "stuff" that I do inside the flow-graph if I can
conveniently do it outside
o speaking to the flowgraph via named pipes and moving the
proprietary and user-goop into non Gnu Radio compiled
code.

This is probably the safest thing that somebody who isn't a lawyer can
do without consulting an (expensive) IPR lawyer.

--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org

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