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doc/FCDEV3B-hardware-bug: update on the investigation and the proposed fix
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:53:32 +0000
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1 Notice of Adoption
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2 ==================
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4 I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, hereby appoint myself as the Adoptive Mother of
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5 the GSM mobile station firmware code that has been abandoned, disowned and
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6 discarded in the trash by Texas Instruments (TI). I argue that by effectively
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7 disowning this code and discarding it in the trash, TI have forfeited any and
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8 all rights they may have had to this code, both moral and economic, and I ask
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9 the users and distributors of my code to ignore and disregard any and all TI
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10 copyright notices interspersed in various individual source files.
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12 Declaration of Free Software Status
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13 ===================================
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15 I, Mychaela Nadezhda Falconia, the Adoptive Mother of the software contained in
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16 this source repository, develop, maintain and distribute this work with the
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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
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20 code as you wish, for any purpose whatsoever;
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22 * By virtue of the complete source code being published, you may study how this
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23 code works, and change it so it does whatever you desire;
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25 * By virtue of there being no one to stop you from doing so, you may
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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
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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
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32 and not TI, I argue that my granting of all of the above freedoms to the user
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33 community should supercede the lack of such grant from TI, and that my work has
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34 the right to be treated as Free Software.