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1 FreeCalypso original work
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2 =========================
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4 The present FreeCalypso firmware is a derived work based on TI's TCS211 and
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5 TCS3.2 firmwares. However, even though it is based on these two starting points
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6 from TI, our FreeCalypso fw is a software product in its own right, and is NOT
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7 merely a "hacked" copy of some TI firmware. The particular way in which we have
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8 combined and integrated pieces from TCS211 and from TCS3.2 to produce our
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9 TCS2/TCS3 hybrid, our meticulous source reconstruction of TCS211 L1 that
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10 originally came in binary object form, our completely new and original firmware
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11 configuration and build system, all of our new code that supports new board-
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12 level hardware targets that use TI chips but aren't TI development boards, and
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13 all other significant new developments made in FreeCalypso constitute our own
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14 original work.
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16 All original work in FreeCalypso that is not directly traceable to some
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17 historical TI code component has been written by Mother Mychaela Nadezhda
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18 Falconia, and I refuse to claim copyright on this software work. I hereby
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19 immediately place this work in the public domain; it may be used, copied,
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20 distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution
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21 or notice to the creator.
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23 Code pieces from TI
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24 ===================
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26 In the case of those code components which originate from TI, we did not get
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27 them *from* TI per se, instead we have found them freely on the Internet. These
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28 Internet finds were not accompanied by any kind of license information, hence
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29 the licensing status of these historical code fragments is currently uncertain.
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30 We are trying to get some clarification from TI, but currently having a very
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31 difficult time finding anyone who even knows what we are talking about - the
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32 very existence of this stuff appears to have been erased from history.