Всем привет.
Это было изложено 19 ноября в Moon-net рефлектор
(moon-net@mailman.pe1itr.com). Joe Taylor подробно описал суть претензии.
Текст скопирован из сообщения. Заранее прошу прощения, что много текста.
Re: [Moon-Net] MSHV
Hi Bryn and all,
On 11/19/2017 3:13 AM, Bryn Howell-Pryce GW4ZHI via Moon-net wrote:
> On LZ2HV’s website the following message has been posted:
> Тhe project was suspended on the recommendation of G4WJS Bill
> Somerville.
> For an undetermined amount of time.
>
> Does anyone know why?
I can answer your question, though I would be much happier if it were
not necessary.
"Why" has to do with the flagrant and unethical copying, use, and
distribution by LZ2HV of computer source code from development branches
of the WSJT project.
For reasons that make sense in a technical hobbyist field like
Amateur Radio, more than a decade ago I chose to develop the software
for program WSJT wholly in the open. The same motivation and philosophy
has always applied to WSJT's sister programs MAP65, WSPR, and WSJT-X.
Anyone with an interest in development of these programs can follow it
in as much detail as desired, in real time.
Our finished programs are released under under the terms of Version 3 of
the GNU General Public License (GPL). Among other things, this license
means that complete copies of source code are available for every
released program version. Foe example, you can download all source code
for WSJT-X, Version 1.8.0, from links on these web pages:
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/wsjtx-1.8.0/
Because we do our development work in the open, at any given time you
can also find plenty of unreleased source code in our SourceForge
repository. All the code found there is copyrighted by its author(s),
either explicitly or implicitly. This code is *NOT* released under the
GPL, or any other license; it is the intellectual property of its
authors. Like other copyrighted material, you are free to give it "fair
use". You may read it, study it, test it, etc. BUT YOU MAY NOT
DISTRIBUTE IT OR BUILD IT INTO A DERIVATIVE PROGRAM THAT YOU DISTRIBUTE.
LZ2HV has taken tens of thousands of code lines code from our open
repository and built them into his derivative work called MSHV. If
restricted to the code for released program versions, my colleagues and
I are very much in favor of such sharing, especially when it's
bi-directional and done in a cooperative spirit. We are NOT in favor of
what amounts to the theft of intellectual property. At best we are
luke-warm toward sharing with others when it's all "take" and no "give".
As most people here know, I am a university scientist. Copying someone
else's experimental code and publishing the result (with or without
attribution) is comparable to entering someone's laboratory when its
door was left open, copying the lab notebooks found there, and
publishing the results yourself before the authors have even finished
their experiments. This is what LZ2HV has done, at least four times
now. This behavior has clearly not been accidental: there have been
multiple warnings, and up to now they have been very polite.
Much to our regret, this unethical behavior may force us to do our
front-line development work in a less public place.
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
73! Геннадий
