Comment by jrochkind1 6 months ago They are also software that is licensed? 9 comments jrochkind1 Reply fsflover 6 months ago AFAIK you can use and reverse engineer the firmware blobs on any OS, free or not. thayne 6 months ago Reverse engineer? Probably. As long as there aren't patents involved. And that is what the librephone project aims to do, from what I understand.But the binary blobs are protected by copyright, so you need a license to use them. jrochkind1 6 months ago Legally, you mean? In the US? Interested in more info on this. M95D 6 months ago Sure.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design 2 replies → devmor 6 months ago I wonder if it's one of those situations where the potential for legal system abuse is a chilling effect. fsflover 6 months ago Can you elaborate? 1 reply →
fsflover 6 months ago AFAIK you can use and reverse engineer the firmware blobs on any OS, free or not. thayne 6 months ago Reverse engineer? Probably. As long as there aren't patents involved. And that is what the librephone project aims to do, from what I understand.But the binary blobs are protected by copyright, so you need a license to use them. jrochkind1 6 months ago Legally, you mean? In the US? Interested in more info on this. M95D 6 months ago Sure.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design 2 replies → devmor 6 months ago I wonder if it's one of those situations where the potential for legal system abuse is a chilling effect. fsflover 6 months ago Can you elaborate? 1 reply →
thayne 6 months ago Reverse engineer? Probably. As long as there aren't patents involved. And that is what the librephone project aims to do, from what I understand.But the binary blobs are protected by copyright, so you need a license to use them.
jrochkind1 6 months ago Legally, you mean? In the US? Interested in more info on this. M95D 6 months ago Sure.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design 2 replies →
devmor 6 months ago I wonder if it's one of those situations where the potential for legal system abuse is a chilling effect. fsflover 6 months ago Can you elaborate? 1 reply →
AFAIK you can use and reverse engineer the firmware blobs on any OS, free or not.
Reverse engineer? Probably. As long as there aren't patents involved. And that is what the librephone project aims to do, from what I understand.
But the binary blobs are protected by copyright, so you need a license to use them.
Legally, you mean? In the US? Interested in more info on this.
Sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design
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I wonder if it's one of those situations where the potential for legal system abuse is a chilling effect.
Can you elaborate?
1 reply →