Dear all,
Maybe you heard of the Radio Equipment Directive already. It's a directive passed by the European Parliament forcing radio device manufacturers (routers, mobile phones, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS...) from around 2017 on to check every software able to run on the respective devices to be compliant with applicable radio laws (e.g. frequency or strenght).
Seeming to be reasonable at first sight, this directive will cause huge damage to Free Software, innovation, security, fair competition, volunteering and more. We have been in contact with many actors around this issue since a few months already; now we published our official information page about the EU Radio Directive, trying to summarise all necessary background info, bad consequences, and recommendations how to improve the situation:
https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
Please share your thoughts on this issue, and please also speak with friends and colleagues about it. Feel free to help us gathering more information and share it on this list or with me directly. Thanks!
Best regards, Max
P.S.: In the USA, the FCC wants to push a quite similar law. Let us try to at least protect Europe from such damage, and let's hope the US activists will be successful as well.