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tpudrv12.h & targets/gtm900.h: our current support is for MGC2GSMT version only As it turns out, there exist two different Huawei-made hw platforms both bearing the marketing name GTM900-B: one is MG01GSMT, the other is MGC2GSMT. The two are NOT fw-compatible: aside from flash chip differences which should be handled by autodetection, the two hw platforms are already known to have different RFFEs with different control signals, and there may be other differences not yet known. Our current gtm900 build target is for MGC2GSMT only; we do not yet have a specimen of MG01GSMT on hand, hence no support for that version will be possible until and unless someone provides one.
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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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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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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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27 them *from* TI per se, instead we have found them freely on the Internet. I,
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28 Mother Mychaela, have made multiple attempts to reach out to TI, informing them
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29 about the existence of our FreeCalypso family of projects and what I am doing
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30 with their old abandoned software IP. I was not able to get any positive
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31 response from them in the form of support or help with obtaining those pieces
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32 of historical code and documentation which are still missing, but they have not
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33 taken any adverse action against us either; specifically, they never said
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34 explicitly that they object to what I am doing (producing and freely
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35 distributing my own Derived Works based on their abandonware IP), and they
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36 never asked me to stop doing so.
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38 Based on the fact that TI have chosen to not take any action against our family
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39 of projects despite being fully informed and having been given multiple
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40 opportunities to do so over the course of many years, we hereby make the
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41 reasonable conclusion that TI do not object to us using their fully abandoned
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42 and discontinued IP as if it were Free Software, and I, Mother Mychaela, shall
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43 continue doing the same for as long as I am alive and physically able.