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Comment by PM_me_your_math | Hacker News Reader

Maybe they want it that way? Why do you always need access to someone else's work. Many of them build these apps to fund their hobbies or put a little food on the table.

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amateur radio service means a radiocommunication service in which radio apparatus are used for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication or technical investigation by individuals who are interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and *without pecuniary interest;* (service de radioamateur)

- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-96-484/F...

So … you just wouldn’t be able to talk about the tools you build and charge money for… on the hobby you built them for?

Seems kind of ironic. And, imho - missing the point of the hobby.

Pecuniary rules apply to operating radio services using amateur radio for business. It doesn't mean you are restricted from profiting from create equipment, tools, or training.

You can absolutely talk about these interests, your business, or your work building things (e.g. antennas) for the ham market. You just can't conduct business, such as hopping on 80M and advertising a sale on antennas, or taking payment for communications between parties, for example.

It's not service in todays meaning!!

Not an amateur radio guy myself but from what I understand it's supposed to be a strictly non-commercial undertaking which means it's a bit churlish to keep your code closed-source.

Many of these tools are free to download, nothing to do with putting food on the table. When the old man that wrote them dies the tools are lost.

Many yes, but not all of them.

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