I'm currently having a moral dilemma. I took a little break from my project and went back to examine my previous work on the BL602. I looked into the Nutcracker official repo and I found no reference nor honorable mentions for work that I know that I at least assisted in. No wonder my Professors acted like I did nothing of value, not being mentioned nor having work cited to me. Can't put that on a CV.
So I continued to read through the repo. All is fair in love and war.
I'm fairly confident that I have a way to get wifi working on the BL602 but it will take time to get correct. Do I turn the information over to the same people who'd rather take credit for everything or just keep it to myself?
I'll give it up soon but only to a few people. It's out of respect for Mr. Lee, Mr. TL and BL that I do this. I don't know when I will get it up because I need to review it and refine it.
I checked again and these are the people I had trouble with before. I'm going to go ahead and work on this code. I hope that I am able to get this out before they do. I'm not doing any Reverse Engineering with this. My code will be unquestionably pure and my past involvement won't matter. This is different code.
My custom firmware project is on hold now and I'm going to finish off this BL602 wifi blob problem. I might use a different OS in the process. This has a greater effect on Free Software than my previous project and therefore it is my priority.
@AmpBenzScientist
Fork the code. Rev yours. Fuck them and if they touch your code pick out their eyes.
@AmpBenzScientist
If you wanna be extra picky demand they either credit you or they lose right to your code.
@PawelK I outshined their efforts once before and now I'm going to do it again. Oh and the code was Apache License v2.0 so I could call them out. I don't know when I released the first version but the second was on 4/20/2021 a few people in that group have published code since then.
I'm not going to go through official channels for that. I will beat them to functional and open source wifi, post and let them know so they can publicly copy my work or continue to write their own. I'm considering using Mr. Lee's work as a base for this.
They would probably publicly denounce it and implement it in private if they even thought it was worthy. That's how it works. Maybe I should take a longer break from my current project and be the first to get wifi then bluetooth working on it.
I also have other ideas about the effort. Sierra Wireless is Canadian and patents might be limited for their "IP" in other countries. It's already been posted many times online. I can respect the Clean Room process but the competition has announced some insanely capable hardware that is coming soon.