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I read the article with interest, waiting with anticipation for them to announce the resulting hardware and software had all been open sourced. And then...noth

by jnbiche 11y ago

I read the article with interest, waiting with anticipation for them to announce the resulting hardware and software had all been open sourced. And then...nothing. I'm surprised, I thought in the UK these kinds of taxpayer-funded projects were required to be open source. In any case, it's too bad. I was not familiar with the NICAM codec up to now, but I'm sure that software and hardware plans would have been very useful to some developing countries, many of whom apparently also use NICAM in their state-owned broadcast companies.

toyg 11y ago
> I thought in the UK these kinds of taxpayer-funded projects were required to be open source. There is no law, afaik, and even the BBC has commercial interests. iPlayer has never been open-source, for example. The BBC has obligations in terms of content reach and content quality, but they're not particularly bound to specific ways of achieving those targets (beyond some stuff about not abusing their position in commercial terms). Actual engineers are mostly pro-OSS and try hard to push for it internally, but they have legal obstacles similar to any other company.