[–] Water 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
ctrl+f baseband
You are not talking about the most important part of the phone. The part the phone with proprietary software from the FCC and on Qualcomm chips this is integrated with the CPU. Librem hopes to crowd fund an Intel based phone where the baseband can be toggled off. Hopefully this can go through and be successful. The OS on the phone is irrelevant as long as the baseband is active, even if that OS is FOSS.
[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If the FCC is a Governmental entity, and the Government cannot hold copyright, how can the code that makes the baseband work be anything other than open-source?
Is it kept secret because of "muh terrorism" fears?
[–] Water 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I am not a legal expert nor really a phone expert, just an OSS enthusiast shit posting online about the government/companies tracking me. I do not believe code without source code released is copyright but I do not really know what legally is copyrighted code. Also I think I may have misspoke, I think the chip manufacturer gets their code approved by the FCC. It is probably the companies arguing their work is contained. I would at least like phones where it it could be isolated from the chip so that it could be disabled or work more like a firmware than a second CPU. I found this link before if you would like to learn more.
http://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/LegalAspects#Usingmodifiedphonesoncarriernetworks
[–] 8925570? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
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