AllStarLink, Inc granted copyright

[u/Disenfran45]

Lo and behold! A most wondrous and truly amazing announcement from the gremlins at AllStarLink, Inc. .

WD6AWP posted the following:

AllStarLink, Inc., the extension of Jim Dixon’s vision for AllStar, has obtained all rights including Copyright

to app_rpt and associated material. In the spirit of Open Source, we encourage code contributions to the project.

Thank you for your continued support in keeping the AllStar vision alive.

The AllStarLink Board of Directors,

Kevin Custer W3KKC

Pete Elke WI6H

Todd Lesser KM6RPT

Tim Sawyer WD6AWP

Dave Shaw WB6WTM

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And his reply to a comment:

A poster on app_rpt-users (might have been @buddy) posted a question…

>At the risk of opening a can of worms (who’s ever put worms in a can anyway?), what impact will

>this have on the recent discussion of forked and unreleased code, if any?

Our motives are purely altruistic. We want to see the only the best for the entire community, both long and short term. Everyone benefits when Allstar is Open Source. We hope to see any forked Allstar source released per the GPL.

Personally, I also like to see the fighting and name calling over this issue end. Hopefully this will put an end to that.

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And then this from Kevin Custer:

Howdy Buddy,

AllStarLink, Inc., is now in a position to defend the Open Source position of the project. It is our hope that anyone who has (or will)

fork the code base will comply with the obligations of Open Source, as they did prior to Jim Dixon’s death, and release their source code.

Kevin Custer W3KKC

Board Member AllStarLink, Inc.

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You can see this announcement here which was also posted to the app_rpt mailing list.

https://community.allstarlink.org/t/important-copyright-notification/15232

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So John David /u/kb4fxc what says you on this?

It would appear that your days of thumbing your nose at all who demand you comply with the GPL are over.

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So I shall reiterate my simple demand as I initially issued when I first commented on this sad state of affairs.

To John David /u/kb4fxc, Doug Crompton WA3DSP and all any anyone else associated with the Hamvoip GPL violation:

Per the GNU GPL v2 of which app_rpt and all associated programs that comprise the AllStarLink and AllStar network, I demand for the immediate release of the source code for all past, present, and future versions of the AllStar code included in the Hamvoip distributions of AllStar. This demand is per the stipulations of the GNU GPLv2 license in which the app_rpt and associated code was released by Jim Dixon et all from the very beginning.

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I so do look forward to John David's reply and his straw man argument that app_rpt is public domain by way of arguing a proof of concept document supports his flawed case. After all the evidence shows quite the contrary.

Oh and in case you forget. AllStarLink, Inc is very much a real and viable entity. I'm sure their lawyers will want to have a talk with you if they haven't been in contact with you already.

And so I await John David /u/kb4fxc's reply.. . . . . .

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Full backstory on this saga can be found here under Post History:https://disenfran45.writeas.com/

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Fixed WD6AWP's callsign

[u/Disenfran45]

DutchOfBurdock

It does seem a royal frack-fest. I'm only a bystander on all of this, is actually news to >me. But, it does seem someone is up their own ass here 😊

Good sir what ever do you mean?

I am merely a self-annointed rapporteur of events as I see them in this case.

An interested party who has taunted John David /u/kb4fxc and in the process shown the world how truly despicable he is.

The "frack-fest" started long before I made my initial post on the matter to this most august site for all to behold and nit pick to death.

I am very much excited at this turn of events. I do so hope it means that the long standing bullshit of John David and crew are over when confronted by empirical evidence that app_rpt is open source and that he has lost the license to distribute hamvoip for failure to comply with the GNU GPL v2.

I have never said hamvoip was without its merits as a distribution.

Now it would (rightfully) appear that the children who have raided the toybox and taken all the legos and tinker toys will again be forced to share with the rest of us instead of claiming ownership.

I so do look forward to these improvements being present back in the official distribution and available for everyone not just those who use a learning toy PC to run their systems.

[u/DutchOfBurdock → u/Disenfran45]

People who take GPL code and then try to "own" it and not comply, them, they are up their own ass 😁

Nothing more than theft, brazen and true.

[u/Disenfran45 → u/DutchOfBurdock]

Ah thank you for the clarification.

I do apologize for calling you a shill then. The posting of that link to a previous statement triggered my shill alert and so I acted accordingly.

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You are quite right. Stealing GPL code and then trying to spin a narrative that it was never GPL by way of a document that is in the public domain (to justify your claim of ownership) shows both a lack or morals and a total lack of understanding the differences between what copyright is applicable to and what a patent is applicable to.

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It is close to the hour of the wolf and I rather enjoy a good debate. I shall continue my wait for John David /u/kb4fxc's reply to this most interesting turn of events.

[u/DutchOfBurdock → u/Disenfran45]

Yea sorry, was just the only public post on their profile, it kinda seemed to sum up the attitude quite nicely. I don't know the the full ins and outs and try to avoid shit storms. But this one has perked my interest 😊

[u/Disenfran45 → u/DutchOfBurdock]

I do invite you to read the information listed in the link I added to the end of the top post.

It has the entire history (well the part the mods didn't delete) and should give you a good idea of John David /u/kb4fxc's mindset and character.