On 02/10/2016 01:06 AM, [email protected] 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.
