I will do that this way in my upcoming "recaller" call recording widget. You have a number of ways in maemo to do postinstall notifications, and one way makes the user actively "accept" a message (normally used for licencing agreements).
The widget features a single button on the homescreen to start/stop recording. It works really well, but I still need an evening or two to finetune (encoding, channels, appearance) before I can release an alpha. Happy hacking - the N900 rocks! -Tom > 2010/1/16 Craig Woodward <wo...@rochester.rr.com> >> >> I know the legality of recording calls varies greatly in many countries. In >> the US where I live it varies from state to state not only if you may record >> calls, but if those recordings may be published or used for legal purposes >> in a court of law. In general in the US you need to be a known participant >> in the call, and in some states that's enough, in others you need to inform >> some or all parties that the call is being recorded. > > >> In any case, this is not new territory for phones in general or for Nokia. >> Several Nokia phones have had the ability to record conversations. My Nokia >> 6230i has the ability to record calls, but for "legal notification reasons" >> emits a muted beep/tone every 5 seconds while it's recording. The tone is >> at about 10% of the volume of the call and lasts 1/2 second, every 5 seconds. > > >> In any case, I doubt any country would have laws that would punish a >> developer for making an application for the phone. Rather most laws would >> target the person who installed and/or used the application in a way that >> did not conform with local laws. > > >> ---- sebastian maemo <sebastian.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ============= > >> 2010/1/14 Kevin T. Neely <ktne...@astroturfgarden.com> > >> Recording conversations is a useful tool, but also illegal or highly >> regulated in many jurisdictions, so that might deter developers somewhat. >> > > I'm not a lawyer... but I think you're wrong (in general). > > Of course, laws depend very much on the country you live... but IMHO > recording a conversation in YOUR own phone is perfectly legal and you don't > need to warn anybody about it, because you are recording YOUR > conversation... > > What is completely illegal is to record conversations of other people, or > even making illegal use of your own conversations when other people is > involved... > > That's MHO and I'm not a lawyer :-P > > > -- > Salut, > Sebas >> > > IMO developer could was his/hers hands just by adding disclaimer to licence > conditions. Something like "make sure recording calls is legal before using > this software". > > but I'm not lawyer so this is uneducated guess. reasoned from the fact that > kitchen knives can be sold even after people are stabbed to death with few of > those sold... > > Ossipena / Timo > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
