Let's not be too negative here. In the past, people have talked about getting hold of the empeg source code and doing something with it. But they've only talked about it; they've done nothing.

By sending an email to Freescale, Boelle is infinitely further advanced than anyone in the past. Let's see if he can run it down properly.

Who knows, if he gets back "yeah, you can use the IP, but we can't find the source code", then all we have to do is see if any of the original team have actually got a copy of the source code that they'd forgotten about. I know that I (unfortunately) don't have a copy.

Whatever happens, he's still put more effort into it than most people...