Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
2022 saw the return of the Dayton Hamvention and also celebrated the 70th anniversary of the world's largest ham radio trade show. Ham Radio Outlet went to the show, of course and spoke to many of the vendors.
In this video, your Ham Radio Sensei, Julian Frost (N3JF) spoke with Richard Desaulniers (VE2DX) from VE2DX Electronic about his products.
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UPDATE: There have been a few comments that the radio meter product VE2DX is selling is in some way a "counterfeit" product because it is in violation of Armel Fauveau's (F4HWN) software license. However, the license is an open-source license which allows anyone to do anything to, or with the software, including selling a product containing F4HWN's software, such as the meter shown in this video. F4HWN claims VE2DX does not include a copy of the 21-line license with his product, but there is no indication that is true and F4HWN has no proof to back up this claim. On his part, VE2DX says he does include a copy of the MIT license with each product. F4HWN and some others are upset that VE2DX is selling a completed product, at a premium, rather than forcing people to purchase the meter from one vendor and then download, compile, and load the software into the meter themselves. Selling a product that contains F4HWM's software is in no way a violation of F4HWN's license and does not make his product "counterfeit", even if F4HWN finds it distasteful. It uses the M5Stack hardware and F4HWM's software in accordance with the license agreement.
The salient point of F4HWM's open-source license states:
"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so..."
2022 saw the return of the Dayton Hamvention and also celebrated the 70th anniversary of the world's largest ham radio trade show. Ham Radio Outlet went to the show, of course and spoke to many of the vendors.
In this video, your Ham Radio Sensei, Julian Frost (N3JF) spoke with Richard Desaulniers (VE2DX) from VE2DX Electronic about his products.
hamradio.com
UPDATE: There have been a few comments that the radio meter product VE2DX is selling is in some way a "counterfeit" product because it is in violation of Armel Fauveau's (F4HWN) software license. However, the license is an open-source license which allows anyone to do anything to, or with the software, including selling a product containing F4HWN's software, such as the meter shown in this video. F4HWN claims VE2DX does not include a copy of the 21-line license with his product, but there is no indication that is true and F4HWN has no proof to back up this claim. On his part, VE2DX says he does include a copy of the MIT license with each product. F4HWN and some others are upset that VE2DX is selling a completed product, at a premium, rather than forcing people to purchase the meter from one vendor and then download, compile, and load the software into the meter themselves. Selling a product that contains F4HWM's software is in no way a violation of F4HWN's license and does not make his product "counterfeit", even if F4HWN finds it distasteful. It uses the M5Stack hardware and F4HWM's software in accordance with the license agreement.
The salient point of F4HWM's open-source license states:
"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so..."
