2 Jul
2016
2 Jul
'16
12:46 p.m.
I would rather use for "clone". Clone sort of implies that one vendor came out with their radio first and then it was copied by another.
But what happens here is we add support for a radio to CHIRP. Then as time goes by we come across another radio that happens to program exactly the same way. Because it got to us 2nd (or 3rd and so on), we call it a clone of the first radio.
Sure, variant or family sounds fine to me. Excellent point about the relative ordering of the CHIRP driver vs. actual release :)
--Dan