Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-14 Thread Josh Branning
Hi, below is the draft letter I composed, addressing licensing, which may or may not need modifying. _ Dear As a great fan of Texas Instruments and free software, the FreeCalypso project is aiming to create a free and open-

Re: [Replicant] Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-14 Thread Josh Branning
On 15/12/15 04:12, Peter Olson wrote: On December 14, 2015 at 9:39 PM Josh Branning wrote: Hi, below is the draft letter I composed, addressing licensing, which may or may not need modifying. _ [snip] longer produces

Re: [Replicant] Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-14 Thread Josh Branning
On 15/12/15 04:12, Peter Olson wrote: On December 14, 2015 at 9:39 PM Josh Branning wrote: Hi, below is the draft letter I composed, addressing licensing, which may or may not need modifying. _ [snip] longer produces

Re: Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-15 Thread Josh Branning
On 15/12/15 07:10, da...@matthews.pm wrote: hi everyone Good to hear of new people interested in our project - welcome Josh. "No stone unturned" is good sense, but an official approach to TI? Surely they cannot officially agree to opening their code as that moves them towards opposition against

Re: Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-15 Thread Josh Branning
On 15/12/15 15:44, Mychaela Falconia wrote: Josh Branning wrote: But if they're not willing to grant you a licence to use the code, why ever would they give you more code to use? Your view is too narrow-minded. We stand a much greater chance of being able to get something of

Re: Draft letter to Texas Instruments

2015-12-15 Thread Josh Branning
Couldn't you mention both in the letter? Like: Canz we has your code plz ... under a GPL compatible license or alternatively under a hobbist non-commercial license? That way TI can decide. ___ Community mailing list Community@freecalypso.org https://

Re: FreeCalypso progress update

2017-08-02 Thread Josh Branning
Hi, As a lurker. You probably already know this but just a word of advice, In regards to the FPGA board, you will probably be after the ICE40, as AFAIK, it is the only one with an open source toolchain (that is, if it meets your requirements). Josh P.S. I would be also be interested to kn

Re: FreeCalypso hardware update

2018-10-07 Thread Josh Branning
TY for writing the letter Mychaela, takes some guts; V. appreciative, you are a credit to the Free Software community. Thanks again & much appreciated, Josh On 06/10/18 10:04, Mychaela Falconia wrote: Hello FC community, I've got an update on the quest for new FreeCalypso hardware in the for

Re: FreeCalypso hardware update

2018-10-07 Thread Josh Branning
Hrr, from that letter, they might be interested, but you wasn't at all clear about licensing and producing software releases to everybody, which they may or may not be concerned about. I may have to withdraw my early thanks and gratitude and wait another few years. Ho hum, Josh On 07/10/18