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author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:06:05 +0000
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1 Notice of Adoption 1 FreeCalypso original work
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4 I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, hereby appoint myself as the Adoptive Mother of 4 The present FreeCalypso firmware is a derived work based on TI's TCS211 and
5 the GSM mobile station firmware code that has been abandoned, disowned and 5 TCS3.2 firmwares. However, even though it is based on these two starting points
6 discarded in the trash by Texas Instruments (TI). I argue that by effectively 6 from TI, our FreeCalypso fw is a software product in its own right, and is NOT
7 disowning this code and discarding it in the trash, TI have forfeited any and 7 merely a "hacked" copy of some TI firmware. The particular way in which we have
8 all rights they may have had to this code, both moral and economic, and I ask 8 combined and integrated pieces from TCS211 and from TCS3.2 to produce our
9 the users and distributors of my code to ignore and disregard any and all TI 9 TCS2/TCS3 hybrid, our meticulous source reconstruction of TCS211 L1 that
10 copyright notices interspersed in various individual source files. 10 originally came in binary object form, our completely new and original firmware
11 configuration and build system, all of our new code that supports new board-
12 level hardware targets that use TI chips but aren't TI development boards, and
13 all other significant new developments made in FreeCalypso constitute our own
14 original work.
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12 Declaration of Free Software Status 16 All original work in FreeCalypso that is not directly traceable to some
13 =================================== 17 historical TI code component has been written by Mother Mychaela Nadezhda
18 Falconia, and I refuse to claim copyright on this software work. I hereby
19 immediately place this work in the public domain; it may be used, copied,
20 distorted or destroyed in any manner whatsoever without further attribution
21 or notice to the creator.
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15 I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, the Adoptive Mother of the software contained in 23 Code pieces from TI
16 this source repository, develop, maintain and distribute this work with the 24 ===================
17 intention that it be treated as Free Software. Specifically:
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19 * By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may use this 26 In the case of those code components which originate from TI, we did not get
20 code as you wish, for any purpose whatsoever; 27 them *from* TI per se, instead we have found them freely on the Internet. These
21 28 Internet finds were not accompanied by any kind of license information, hence
22 * By virtue of the complete source code being published, you may study how this 29 the licensing status of these historical code fragments is currently uncertain.
23 code works, and change it so it does whatever you desire; 30 We are trying to get some clarification from TI, but currently having a very
24 31 difficult time finding anyone who even knows what we are talking about - the
25 * By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may 32 very existence of this stuff appears to have been erased from history.
26 redistribute copies of this code however you like;
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28 * Also by virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may
29 distribute modified versions to others as well.
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31 Because the present developer, maintainer and distributor of this code is me
32 and not TI, I argue that my granting of all of the above freedoms to the user
33 community should supercede the lack of such grant from TI, and that my work has
34 the right to be treated as Free Software.