History
Started in 2001, GNU Radio is an official GNU project. Philanthropist John Gilmore initiated and has sustained GNU Radio with the funding of $320,000 (US) to Eric Blossom for code creation and project management duties.
GNU Radio began as a fork of the Pspectra code that was developed by the SpectrumWare project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 a complete rewrite of the GNU Radio was completed, so today GNU Radio doesn't contain any of the original Pspectra code. Also of note is that the Pspectra codebase has been used as the foundation of the commercial Vanu Software Radio.
In September 2010, Eric Blossom stepped down as project manager and was replaced by Tom Rondeau. Tom is a graduate of Virginia Tech and is an expert in cognitive radio and a longtime contributor to GNU Radio.
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