Am Di 22. April 2008 schrieb Harald Welte: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:55:09PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the problem is that there is no legal way to acquire that information > > > unless you have explicit permission by the operator to use it. > > > > At O2, it's GSM-CellBroadcast, this is _explicitly_ _designed_ to be received > > by *any* cellphone (permission included). Grab your phone, activate > > Cellbroadcast channel number 221, and if you're in Germany and on O2, you > > *for* *sure* have *legal* info about the exact position of your BTS. No > > database needed, O2 is giving it away for free :-) > > ah, ok, my fault. if it's cell broadcast, then I think I agree. > > > You're not going to say I can buy a simcard + phone at any O2 shop, but I'm > > not allowed to press the buttons on this phone to enable cell-broadcast. Are > > you? > > I might still tell you that one of the following cases is true > > a) you might not be able to use that information 'geschaeftsmaessig' > (which is included but not limited to commercial use) > > b) distributing that information might not be possible, i.e. it might > well be that O2 customers are able to receive, but not allowed to > further distribute/publicize the information. > > I just want to state: Be careful... law is weird, especially when it > comes to IT :) > > -- > - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ > ============================================================================ > Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone >
ACK! I never would suppose OM or FIC should start such a project out of themselves, just tell community which way it's a nice landscape... :-) CU in a few hours ;-) /jOERG
