diff LICENSE @ 175:377c7af2f438

LICENSE: current status
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:11:40 +0000
parents 9c14f0c7a904
children d78986760e92
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--- a/LICENSE	Wed Jun 19 06:15:56 2019 +0000
+++ b/LICENSE	Fri Jun 21 23:11:40 2019 +0000
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 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.
+level hardware targets that use TI chips but aren't TI's historical development
+boards, and all other significant new developments made in FreeCalypso
+constitute our own original work.
 
 All original work in FreeCalypso that is not directly traceable to some
 historical TI code component has been written by Mother Mychaela Nadezhda
@@ -24,9 +24,20 @@
 ===================
 
 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.
+them *from* TI per se, instead we have found them freely on the Internet.  I,
+Mother Mychaela, have made multiple attempts to reach out to TI, informing them
+about the existence of our FreeCalypso family of projects and what I am doing
+with their old abandoned software IP.  I was not able to get any positive
+response from them in the form of support or help with obtaining those pieces
+of historical code and documentation which are still missing, but they have not
+taken any adverse action against us either; specifically, they never said
+explicitly that they object to what I am doing (producing and freely
+distributing my own Derived Works based on their abandonware IP), and they
+never asked me to stop doing so.
+
+Based on the fact that TI have chosen to not take any action against our family
+of projects despite being fully informed and having been given multiple
+opportunities to do so over the course of many years, we hereby make the
+reasonable conclusion that TI do not object to us using their fully abandoned
+and discontinued IP as if it were Free Software, and I, Mother Mychaela, shall
+continue doing the same for as long as I am alive and physically able.