Steve Markgraf steve@steve-m.de wrote:

I don't quite see how waving the Free Software flag and distributing proprietary source from the TSM30/Locosto leaks (pretty much everything in freecalypso-sw/gsm-fw/) go together.

That source is NOT proprietary, it is *ex*-proprietary. It *was* proprietary, but not any more - it is now in the public domain.

Free Software is not just a "flag" to be waved, it is a practical reality: in *practical* terms, software that is based on ex-proprietary code that has been liberated through the exercise of Eminent Domain and subsequently developed and maintained in the manner of a free sw project gives its users all of the 4 freedoms defined by FSF.

However, I shall leave it here -- any further replies or comments or questions in this thread will *not* elicit a further reply from me. But if there is anyone else on this list who desires a usable cellphone for talking to his or her significant other like I do, please be assured that I have no plans of dropping the project; the work is progressing at a steady pace as you can see from the Mercurial commit history, and I have high hopes of some actually-usable result some time around the end of 2014.

VLR, SF