Can The Proprietary GPS Daemon Be Removed?

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Tue Nov 28 17:32:06 CET 2006


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Dave Crossland schreef:
> On 28/11/06, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>>
>> And can someone confirm the GSM part is Free? :-)
> 
> Reason I ask is:
> 
> "There are some minor, self-contained proprietary bits on the back end
> side in userspace."
> - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/
> 
> which appears to contradict
> 
> "In userspace, there only one single component that is not going to be
> under a Free Software License"
> - http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/2006/11/08/

It isn't contradictory, since the complete GSM stack is on a seperate SoC and userspace
only talks to it via AT commands (probably wrapped by gsmlib and Harald's line discipline).

regards,

Koen
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