Just got this email from Rekor

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I also got this email:

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Dear Not Available,

Please be advised that all legacy implementations of Rekor Scout™Commercial will increase to $49 per month beginning effective November 1, 2021 to match the current Scout Commercial version pricing.

Over the past two years, the Scout platform has undergone numerous improvements to provide increased recognition accuracy and capabilities, along with improved dashboards and other search and security functionality.

To take advantage of the full capabilities of Scout now and in the future, we encourage you to update your agent to the latest available version (2.7.101), which can be accessed at https://cloud.openalpr.com/getting_started/. The legacy version of Scout will continue to stay live, but we will no longer be supporting updates.
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The right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing at Rekor. Version 2.7.101 was three updates ago. The current version is 4.1.1.

Ouch .. $50/month .. that's significant for most of us ..

"Please be advised that all legacy implementations of Rekor Scout™Commercial will increase to $49 per month beginning effective November 1, 2021 to match the current Scout Commercial version pricing. "
 

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It seems Matt Hill created the OpenALPR project and did much of the work on it:


He was then hired by Rekor, effectively buying him and his company:

Since then, commits AND merges have dried up on the main line.

Matt added the AGPL v3.0 license to the project in 2013:

This license is specifically to ensure that improvements are shared back to the community, even if the code is running on the server.

One should be able to demand they release their "numerous improvements to provide increased recognition accuracy and capabilities" back to the community. I'd much prefer to run everything local on linux anyway.
 

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It seems Matt Hill created the OpenALPR project and did much of the work on it:


He was then hired by Rekor, effectively buying him and his company:

Since then, commits AND merges have dried up on the main line.

Matt added the AGPL v3.0 license to the project in 2013:

This license is specifically to ensure that improvements are shared back to the community, even if the code is running on the server.

One should be able to demand they release their "numerous improvements to provide increased recognition accuracy and capabilities" back to the community. I'd much prefer to run everything local on linux anyway.
Thanks @brianegge

Enjoyed reading your post.
 
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It seems Matt Hill created the OpenALPR project and did much of the work on it:

He was then hired by Rekor, effectively buying him and his company:

Since then, commits AND merges have dried up on the main line.

Matt added the AGPL v3.0 license to the project in 2013:

This license is specifically to ensure that improvements are shared back to the community, even if the code is running on the server.

One should be able to demand they release their "numerous improvements to provide increased recognition accuracy and capabilities" back to the community. I'd much prefer to run everything local on linux anyway.
Has anyone ever legally enforced AGPL? Or any copyleft license, for that matter?

Matt Hill might have had noble intentions when he wrote the original source code, but being handed lots and lots of money tends to change things. :)
 

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So, as I understand the general concept:

The original developer / copyright holder - can license his/her copyright under different licenses.

So, while the developer may have licensed the code as AGPL, whatever code he created he can still advance and not publish the newer code base under the prior license.

Copyright and licenses do get complex ...
 

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Hell my agent service keeps stopping since the last update so bleh.
I am running 4.1.1 and I have the same issue. The service will randomly just stop after a few days. I have to manually start it again. It drives me nuts.
 

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I am running 4.1.1 and I have the same issue. The service will randomly just stop after a few days. I have to manually start it again. It drives me nuts.
I tried 4.1.1, but rolled back to the previous version 2.8.????

The 4.1.1 version has a bug, where it will not correctly group the plates from multiple cameras. I contacted Rekor about it, they asked questions but never did anything about it so I was forced to rollback and the old one instantly started working correctly for me.
 

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I tried 4.1.1, but rolled back to the previous version 2.8.????

The 4.1.1 version has a bug, where it will not correctly group the plates from multiple cameras. I contacted Rekor about it, they asked questions but never did anything about it so I was forced to rollback and the old one instantly started working correctly for me.
You might want to check and make sure the configuration variable names didn't change in the new version. some of them changed for the amount of storage space used by the client, the grouping names might have changed as well. it's not in their documentation, i had to look at the config defaults file inside the container.
 

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Hell my agent service keeps stopping since the last update so bleh.
I had the same issues. I am currently sending them logs for the engineers to look at and they determined a bug in version 4.11 and they replied again saying engineers said to upgrade recor to version 4.1.3 and it should work ok.
 
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I had the same issues. I am currently sending them logs for the engineers to look at and they determined a bug in version 4.11 and they replied again saying engineers said to upgrade recor to version 4.1.3 and it should work ok.
Version 4.1.3? The latest version on the Rekor site is 4.1.1. Did they give you access to a beta version?
 

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Version 4.1.3? The latest version on the Rekor site is 4.1.1. Did they give you access to a beta version?
I wrote them back and said 4.1.1 is still currently showing as the download. I am waiting to see what they say about the newer one they told me to install. Will update when they get back to me
 

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Hmm, now do I update or not. I'm on 4.1.1 with no issues whatsoever...
I guess if no issues you don't need to. They just said they fixed the bug that people were getting with the agent stopping and having to restart it.
 

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Hmm, now do I update or not. I'm on 4.1.1 with no issues whatsoever...
Here is what else they wrote:
While we will always recommend to upgrade to the newest version. If the old one is working for you, I would keep an eye on it until you see an issue and then upgrade to 4.1.3 if you absolutely have to. The reason I say that is because I've noticed some customers having issues with licensing when they've upgraded several times. While this issue can be rectified, it can cause a disruptions in your operations which I would want to avoid at all cost and I suggest to avoid that unless its necessary. As I mentioned before the latest addresses that issue with the agent stopping. Either route you decide if you have issues, let us know.

VR,
Alex Virula
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I wonder if this newest version would improve using the GPU - mine was constantly starting/stopping when I tried to move it to the GPU.
 

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I wonder if this newest version would improve using the GPU - mine was constantly starting/stopping when I tried to move it to the GPU.
All you can do is try if the current one is not working right. I never used anything but the I7 processor that came with the laptop
 
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