--- 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.