[Hamlib-developer] CI-V

[Kai A. <ka...@su...>]

Hi all,

finally I've got a response from Icom Europe (Germany) but only
"unofficially"...

They don't have any problems with giving away copies of their CI-V
spec to developers but won't give us a written permission to use it
under GPL. The reason for that is the somehow strange attitude of
Icom Japan (they fear some legally exotic issues).

However, I was pointed to their website where is a link to 

	http://www.plicht.de/

where you'll find documentation of CI-V in english language.

Additionally my Icom contact told me about an article in the german
ham magazine "cq DL" 10/1990, pp. 634-638 which was about a reference
implementation of a rig control for an Icom receiver.

What does that mean for us?
On the one hand for legal reasons Icom Japan won't give anybody written
permission for the use of their copyrighted documentation. On the other
hand there are at least two independent sources of this spec to which we
can refer to. So from my point of view I have no problem of using the
original spec but "officiallly" refer to the past publications.

Comments?

Regards, Kai
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