That's rather sad, but I suppose it was bound to happen. I've heard the GNU
community will aggressively go after anyone trying to make $$ off of GNU
licensed software. It doesn't seem like a violation the way Wayne put out
DigiRite, but that's just my opinion.
I gave up doing software when DOS died. It would probably be a good thing
for my soul to go through this build process but it looks intimidating.
Maybe a 3rd party can pick this up and do the build? Maybe I'm under
estimating the process, but in the end one only needs the built files, the
Visual Studio runtime stuff, and then run that register modifier. Is that
the case? If a 3rd party offers those files (for free) then the legal
issues are solved? I would have no problem putting the files in my Google
cloud account as publicly shared. I have no connection with Writelog other
than being a user. Would that help?
73, Alan AD6E / KH6TU
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>
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 15:51:47 +0000
> From: "Wayne, W5XD" <w5xd@writelog.com>
> To: Writelog Forum <writelog@contesting.com>
> Subject: [WriteLog] DigiRite 1.1.32 update. and a new way to
> distribute it
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>
> To users of WriteLog with DigiRite
>
> There is a new version of DigiRite available. But...
>
> Since the previous release of DigiRite, version 1.1.30, we have received
> complaints from the WSJT-X copyright holders that the combination of
> WriteLog with DigiRite violates their software license, the Gnu Public
> License (GPL.) It is our reading that DigiRite does not violate the GPL,
> but our opinion does not remove the threat that we would have to pay
> lawyers to defend it. To reduce that threat to a level of risk we are
> willing to take (it cannot go to zero--anyone can sue anybody for
> anything in this country) we have removed the DigiRite installer kit
> from writelog.com. The DigiRite sources remain open (which is the
> primary requirement of the GPL after all) and are published on github
> and there are some new features since 1.1.30 that might interest you.
>
> These features are in version 1.1.32:
> ??? 1. fix a bug that poorly chooses the priority of which messages to
> send to concurrent QSOs in progress.
> ??? 2. Set the CQ message and the exchange to send in DigiRite dialogs
> rather than fishing around in WriteLog's f-key memories. (That was not a
> user-friendly choice in the first place, so its now fixed.)
>
> To get a running version of DigiRite 1.1.32, you have to build it
> yourself (or get someone to do it for you). The software tools are
> available for free download from Microsoft.? The details are at
> http://writelog.com/digirite, which links to the build recipe here:
> https://writelog.com/digirite-build
>
> Wayne, W5XD
>
>
>
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