[WLANnews] FCC blocks alternative firmwares on routers

[Monic Meisel]

Dear fellow activists,

have you recognized issue:

> The FCC new regulation is preventing installation of alternative
> firmwares such as OpenWRT or DD-WRT on routers.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-08-06/html/2015-18402.htm
This would heavily affect all wireless communities all over the world not only in the U.S.

>> Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
>> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403
>> "In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software
>> patents in Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy.
>> Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of
>> software, they are now seeking to create a central European patent
>> court, which would establish and enforce patentability rules in their
>> favor, without any possibility of correction by competing courts or
>> democratically elected legislators."



Here is the talk from battle mesh:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=2015-08-06_wbmv8_FCC.pdf

Rare infos are gathered in this pad:
https://common.tnode.com/pad/p/FCC

Please join prpl foundations FCC list for further info and discussion what action your organization could take to fight this regulation: http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc

Simon, Andi and I would like to write a wrap-up-blogpost in German in the next dayz under blog.freifunk.net to inform freifunkas
Please spread this amongst your peer groups, forward it to other activists and inform the public about this topic, it is barely known ...

Thanks for your support,
Best regards Monic

PS: Together with the problem of a new chip generation which is not supporting ad hoc it seems we need to build our own routers soon!
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