From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Christian de Rivaz Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:40 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] U-book and GPLv3? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200907021059.57816.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> References: <20090618145128.69F27832E416@gemini.denx.de> <200907011051.48607.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <200907021059.57816.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Message-ID: <4A4CECA4.3010301@eclis.ch> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Robin Getz a ?crit : > On Thu 2 Jul 2009 09:56, Richard Stallman pondered: >> This clause is not an exception to the requirement for installation >> information. Cell phones must offer installation information just like >> other User Products. > > Right - but the cell phone provider should have the ability to alter the state > of the device (not allow the radio to be turned on), so it can't "adversely > affects the operation of the network" - shouldn't they? > > Or is this where one person's freedom (the ability to modify their phone, and > turn it into a jamming device), is more important than the freedom of > everyone else to actually use their phones on the same network. (Which > actually - wouldn't be a completely bad idea - when I have been standing near > someone talking too loud into their phone in a public place, I often wish for > a jam the network app on my phone :) An operator can only deny the access to his network. It can't *legaly* modify the user device without the user agreement. A user is *technically* free to modify a device to do what he want. But it can't *legaly* emit a signal not in conformance to the relevant regulations. There is a lot of them in the case of the a GSM/3G device: http://www.3gpp.mobi/specifications Jean-Christian de Rivaz