Legal situation

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Okay, development of a new GSM chip is a bit more than any community
project can do. Even being ancient, Calypso chipset is a highly complex
system which consists out of many devices, packaged into few chips. Up to
date there were no examples of complete reverse engineering of such a
system without using any leaked or officially released information from
manufacturers. Not including industrial espionage cases pulled by some
organizations, which had no benefits for the general public anyways.

FreeCalypso is using existing chipset to produce a new product. As of today
FCDEV3B development board is available, which is designed to expose all
Calypso chipset interfaces. Traditionally device manufacturers only expose
interfaces which they have use for in their product, so in this case
developers have a chance to avoid consumer devices modding in order to
reach some of the functions of the chipset.

If you come from the consumer side and "just want" a free firmware, then FC
has no value for you, there is nothing new and exciting in there. However
as a developer you would be quite impressed what FC software, built on
fragments of TI codebase, can do for you. FC gathered all the bits
scattered across the world, filled in blanks and added some new features
into the mix, and you can trust, that is a pretty difficult job for a side
geek as FC has no full-time staff.

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:27 PM, viva astoria <viva.astoria at yandex.ru> wrote:

> > Alternatively you could try talking to TI and beg and plead with them
> > to voluntarily relinquish their copyright claims on their very dead
> > and very ancient abandonware and release it into the public domain. I
> > am guessing that you would probably need to wave a few million dollars
> > in front of them just to get their attention.
>
> Wait... Are you talking about the firmware or about the specifications (i.
> e. what commands for the TI processor are available and what they do)? If
> you are talking about some firmware whose source already exists since it
> leaked from TI, and the chip already exists as well, then what is
> FreeCalypso project actually doing?
>
> I've seen something about hardware development at FreeCalypso website. My
> impression was that the project is going to develop a new GSM chip that
> could be used with free firmware. Is that impression wrong?
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