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[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 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?

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[–] Water 0 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

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[–] Donbuster 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

its to keep phone makers from intentionally making their phones impossible to migrate, to enforce spectrum limitations (gotta make sure I don't transmit at crazy high power on military reserved bands) and other stuff of the sort