Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] TI open source tools

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Bob McGwier <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the squeaky wheel gets the grease category,  I have two things.  The
> story about the removal of the open source Linux tools.  It was a mistake
> and caused by disorganized placement of tools in their directory structure.
> The second thing is I have been given personal assurances from the people in
> charge that TI is UTTERLY committed to open source tools.   They are
> providing me with an ftp site for the tools and are reconstituting the web
> site as quickly as possible.


TI does not have open source tools for their DSPs, it would appear you
are again mistaken.  They have proprietary tools available at no cost
for open source developers to build software for their products.

Regardless of their statements to you, the license agreement reads
otherwise and they could withdraw the tools at any time. If they like
to demonstrate the kind of "utter" commitment that you're crediting
them above then they could release their DSP toolchain  software under
an open source license, or at least enter into a binding legal
agreement the prevents the withdraw of the tools.

In any case, I'm glad to hear that your initial claim was mistaken and
that they hadn't done such a foolish thing today.  Now you can
continue your uncompensated labour helping them sell their products.
:)