open GPS (Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko)

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Simon Norberg <simon at dackbrann.net> writes:
> And i really hope we can replace the non-free GPS software as soon
> as possible or atleast before the public release.

There is an open-source gps project that seems to have the code needed
to do the GPS positional calculations from first principles.

      http://home.earthlink.net/~cwkelley/

Unfortunately someone will still have to talk the company that
manufacturers the Neo's GPS chip to cough up some usable
documentation.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/