"The Licensed Materials being provided to you hereunder are being made publicly available by TI, even though they contain copyrighted material of TI and its licensors, if applicable. In no event may you alter, remove or destroy any copyright notice included in the Licensed Materials. To the extent that any of the Licensed Materials are provided in binary or object code only, you may not unlock, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise translate such binary or object code to human-perceivable form. The source code of such reverse engineered code may contain TI trade secret and other proprietary information. TI reserves all rights not specifically granted under this Agreement."
so any blobs are not explicitly non-free. Of course, blobs are non-free anyway because they do not respect freedoms 1 and 3. As for the rest, "For the Licensed Materials provided in source code format, TI hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive license to reproduce, use, and create modified or derivative works of the Licensed Materials provided to you in source code format and to distribute an unlimited number of copies of such source code Licensed Materials, or any derivatives thereof, in any format." so it sounds like anything provided in source code form respects all four freedoms *legally* and might be free software. However, if it depends on the blobs to build or run then it is non-free *in practice*. So I guess the question is whether you can omit the blobs and still build and use the software, which I doubt. I'm not a lawyer and don't know much about licenses, but I don't think that this is free software.
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