On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:20:23AM -0400, ken wrote: > Many years ago-- well, between ten and twenty, I believe-- there was > legislation which allowed people to install any kind of phones they > wanted in their home or business. Prior to this AT&T would permit > only its own phones and phone systems. This same was interpreted to > allow people to install whatever software on their own phones that > they wanted. I'm (still) not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that's > the situation today, i.e., you bought it, it's yours, so you can do > what you want with it, including jailbreaking it. But doing so > would more than likely invalidate any warrantee and support > agreement that came with the phone.
DMCA (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) supercedes that law and makes it illegal again. The Librarian of Congress permitted an exemption for a while, but no longer: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/28/surprise-its-now-illegal-to-jailbreak-smartphones-switch-carriers/ http://www.iclarified.com/25365/library-of-congress-rules-jailbreaking-ipads-and-unlocking-new-iphones-illegal -- Carl Fink ca...@li-con.org Chair, LI-CON, March 29-30, 2014, Rockville Centre, NY Con Site: http://li-con.org ICON Fundraising Campaign: http://igg.me/at/iconsf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131101133820.ga20...@panix.com
