# HG changeset patch # User Mychaela Falconia # Date 1554239122 0 # Node ID 3e5689c0ca4e6c02aeed7ebdc07bbe2649026aaf # Parent 8f50b202e81f8e8bb78866e99cb9ca350b2839a6 LICENSE: current status diff -r 8f50b202e81f -r 3e5689c0ca4e LICENSE --- a/LICENSE Mon Apr 01 01:05:24 2019 +0000 +++ b/LICENSE Tue Apr 02 21:05:22 2019 +0000 @@ -1,34 +1,32 @@ -Notice of Adoption -================== +FreeCalypso original work +========================= -I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, hereby appoint myself as the Adoptive Mother of -the GSM mobile station firmware code that has been abandoned, disowned and -discarded in the trash by Texas Instruments (TI). I argue that by effectively -disowning this code and discarding it in the trash, TI have forfeited any and -all rights they may have had to this code, both moral and economic, and I ask -the users and distributors of my code to ignore and disregard any and all TI -copyright notices interspersed in various individual source files. - -Declaration of Free Software Status -=================================== +The present FreeCalypso firmware is a derived work based on TI's TCS211 and +TCS3.2 firmwares. However, even though it is based on these two starting points +from TI, our FreeCalypso fw is a software product in its own right, and is NOT +merely a "hacked" copy of some TI firmware. The particular way in which we have +combined and integrated pieces from TCS211 and from TCS3.2 to produce our +TCS2/TCS3 hybrid, our meticulous source reconstruction of TCS211 L1 that +originally came in binary object form, our completely new and original firmware +configuration and build system, all of our new code that supports new board- +level hardware targets that use TI chips but aren't TI development boards, and +all other significant new developments made in FreeCalypso constitute our own +original work. -I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, the Adoptive Mother of the software contained in -this source repository, develop, maintain and distribute this work with the -intention that it be treated as Free Software. Specifically: - -* By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may use this - code as you wish, for any purpose whatsoever; - -* By virtue of the complete source code being published, you may study how this - code works, and change it so it does whatever you desire; +All original work in FreeCalypso that is not directly traceable to some +historical TI code component has been written by Mother Mychaela Nadezhda +Falconia, and I refuse to claim copyright on this software work. I hereby +immediately place this work in the public domain; it may be used, copied, +distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution +or notice to the creator. -* By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may - redistribute copies of this code however you like; +Code pieces from TI +=================== -* Also by virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may - distribute modified versions to others as well. - -Because the present developer, maintainer and distributor of this code is me -and not TI, I argue that my granting of all of the above freedoms to the user -community should supercede the lack of such grant from TI, and that my work has -the right to be treated as Free Software. +In the case of those code components which originate from TI, we did not get +them *from* TI per se, instead we have found them freely on the Internet. These +Internet finds were not accompanied by any kind of license information, hence +the licensing status of these historical code fragments is currently uncertain. +We are trying to get some clarification from TI, but currently having a very +difficult time finding anyone who even knows what we are talking about - the +very existence of this stuff appears to have been erased from history.