Proprietary Firmware and Drivers?

Pocket P.C.
#1

Hi, Which hardware needs non-free licensed or has no source code firmware and/or drivers? I greatly prefer hardware that has no proprietary firmware :). My dream love is 100% libre software stack and firmware :D.

I guess the wifi and bluetooth firmware is non-free, not sure if the driver is non-free? need to research more. I end up, giving up and using wifi,bt anyway but libre firmware and driver is a great preference :).

What about the microcontroller for the keyboard and lora, Is all the source code firmware on it going to be published under a libre software compatible license?

Thank you very much for your efforts! :slight_smile:

#2

I don’t have an answer for the Wi-Fi/BT firmware right now.

However, for the keyboard software, we are currently planning on scrapping our existing firmware for QMK as it is well developed and GPL-licensed.

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#3

Thanks muchly for the reply!

btw i would be ok with old versions of wifi if it means getting to use the few wifi ic that had libre firmware for it released.

thinkpenguin.com/ was the one that got the source code released for the wifi ic in there dongles they used.

#4

QMK looks like a great way of having fancy libre keyboard firmware :smiley: