Christian Seberino wrote:
Michael J McCafferty wrote:
Is there a law that makes it illegal at the time it is released ? If
not, then it's legal.
But beware of interpretation of laws that make things like jamming
tools, or tools to circumvent regulated limitations, etc.
Yea. There seems to be some uncertainty about whether a company will get
canned for open sourcing everything. I believe OpenMoko is a cell phone
intentiontionally designed to be as open as possible to appear to hackers
like the open source community. Perhaps not surprisingly, I think they
open sourced everything **BUT** the GSM stack.
I suspect it's a licensing issue. Not licensing from a software
perspective, but licensing from an FCC perspective. If the FCC says,
"we're not going to renew your license or allow your device to be
registered if you release this source code," then that goes a long way
to making the product nothing more than a doorstop.
Which, is henceforth why the FCC is evil. There are other reasons, but
this bullyish crap is a good enough reason to hate them.
-Kelsey
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