Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation
The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corporation (TAPR) is an international amateur radio organization. The name is based on the fact that the group was founded in 1981 in Tucson , Arizona .
Initially the focus was on the development of a Terminal Node Controller (TNC) to make packet radio usable for radio amateurs . The firmware and hardware of the many TNCs that were built and used around the world were based on developments by TAPR.
Today other developments are in the foreground. TAPR is developing the HPSDR (High Performance Software Defined Radio ). Together with the American amateur radio association ARRL , TAPR organizes an annual Digital Communications Conference.
In 2007 TAPR was involved in the creation of the first open source hardware license, the "TAPR Open Hardware License". It was written by attorney John Ackermann with feedback from open source representatives such as Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond and approved after hundreds of community contributions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tapr.org/hpsdr_index.html TAPR website (viewed September 6, 2011).
- ↑ http://www.tapr.org/dcc.html Official website (viewed September 6, 2011).
- ↑ transcript of all comments ( Memento of April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), on technocrat.net by Bruce Perens
- ^ Ars Technica: TAPR introduces open-source hardware license, OSI skeptical .