Re: Support for new SDR devices

Let me see if I understand the PCIeSDR proprietary libsdr.so situation correctly. There is a hardware vendor (Amarisoft) who produces a piece of hardware, but refuses to provide FLOSS support for it, and instead provides an essential layer (required for the device to work) only in the form of a proprietary binary library with no source - is this understanding correct? Does this vendor have competitors? Are there other companies who make SDR devices in PCIe form factor, but who provide all necessary support pieces in full source form under an Osmocom-compatible license? Maybe LimeSDR PCIe? If such alternative non-proprietary vendors exist, why not vote with your dollars against proprietary blobs by giving your business to better vendors rather than Amarisoft? OTOH if you personally (Xaver) already invested into Amarisoft hardware and don't want your work to go to waste because of license worship, I encourage you to maintain your own fork of OsmoTRX outside of osmocom.org and thus out of reach of their license police. I will never use it myself or even look at it because this kind of SDR is not my area of interest, but I am encouraging you as a matter of general principle, just like my predecessor Che Guevara would have. M~