start here: Software Defined Radio receivers

Posted Jul 11, 2007 1:10 UTC (Wed) by ilmari (guest, #14175)
In reply to: start here: Software Defined Radio receivers by pascal.martin
Parent article: A green light for free-software defined radio?

Open Source could be pushed out of the home network market, smashed between the demands of the FCC and those of GPL v3.

There's no need to worry about the GPL v3 unless you're worried about wireless support in HURD. The Linux kernel is staying GPLv2 and I doubt the BSDs would accept GPLv3 code in their kernels.

start here: Software Defined Radio receivers

Posted Jul 13, 2007 18:09 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

But they already accepted CDDL code! See the ZFS on FreeBSD page...

start here: Software Defined Radio receivers

Posted Jul 20, 2007 12:58 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link]

Indeed. The new Intel drivers work around this by means of a small free in-kernel driver (using DeviceScape no less) with a user-space binary blob.

As long as it is legal to use proprietary user-space software with free operating system kernels and libraries (which I'm pretty sure GPL v3 does not prevent), this approach will work fine for software-defined radio.