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WSJT-X - end of the line?

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I was poking around a harmless thread about software congratulation,and stumbled on the news that the award-winning WSJT-X may be at or near it's current end:
Re: Announcing the 2024 Amateur Radio Software Award Winners
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2024, 12:25:48 PM »
https://www.eham.net/forum/view?id=topi ... 884.0.html
The issue appears to be that WSJT-X https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html is currently made available under the GPL. Good? Yes, but the GPL does permit forked development. One such fork has permitted unattended operation, against the wishes of J Taylor himself. The proposed remedy appears to make future WSJT-X proprietary closed source.

Well? While WSJT-X is very much J Taylor's "baby", the effects of removing future development from the public domain may not all be positive?
JTDX https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtdx-improved/ anyone?
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Re: WSJT-X - end of the line?

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Reports of the death have been greatly exaggerated. See viewtopic.php?t=232 for a quick cheer-up!
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