Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Reverse Engineering

[Fabio Pesari]

On 02/10/2016 01:06 AM, arthur_torrey@comcast.net wrote:
> This seems like something that MIGHT be helped, or at least encouraged, by 
> the folks in the "Digital Right to Repair" movement.  They are trying to 
> produce a legal REQUIREMENT that companies release the information needed for 
> outside entities to service their products to the same extent that an 
> in-house entity would.  I don't know that this would drill down far enough to 
> require releasing signing keys, but one might be able to make a case for 
> it....  If nothing else it would make it harder to block efforts to crack the 
> signature...

Do you mean http://repair.org/ ? I agree. I think the FSF should
approach them.

> That said, there is the Open Source Hardware Association 
> http://www.oshwa.org/ that does in some ways try to do the equivalent of the 
> FSF...  

Thanks. I think their name along makes collaboration with the FSF
unlikely, too bad. I think the emphasis should be on freedom and on
hardware designs rather than actual hardware: those can be copyrighted
just fine.