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1title: The right to install other software on your computing devices
2date: 2015-05-05 21:56:00
3updated: 2015-05-06 06:54:37
4author: 46halbe
5tags: update, pressemitteilung
6
7The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) supports the call on lawmakers to safeguard the right to tinker for everyone.
8
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10
11> Today, on the International Day Against DRM, the undersigned
12> organisations are calling on lawmakers to safeguard the right to
13> tinker for everyone. To make sure that the owner of every device is
14> allowed to replace or supplement the software in that device if they
15> so choose, thereby empowering owners to control their own property.
16>
17> Many manufacturers today add technological restrictions that prevent
18> device owners from changing their devices, or having someone do so for
19> them. This can be in breach of the licences on the devices (as with
20> Free Software/Open Source Software licences, which grant the rights to
21> use, study, share, and improve the software for any purpose). It is
22> clear that any right to tinker must also be coupled with a legal
23> provision that prevents technological restrictions of the same right.
24>
25> To successfully guarantee that device owners are in control of their
26> own technology, the following organisations ask that the right to
27> tinker be guaranteed for everyone, and that technological restrictions
28> that interfere with this right be limited by law.
29
30Safecast is a global project to map radiation data from around the world
31and release this information openly. When the project just started out,
32they used modified hardware, together with their own custom software and
33a few clever tweaks, to allow anyone to participate in the project. This
34kind of ingenuity, the ability to re-purpose or adapt existing
35technology by replacing or supplementing its software, should be
36permitted and encouraged by the law. In the example of Safecast,
37fortunately nobody prevented them from being innovative.\
38\
39But all of us depend on the possibility to install or replace programs
40that we use every day, to increase our security, privacy or convenience
41– or just because we happen to like using a different program on our
42laptop, tablet, phone, router, television, car, or on other devices.
43
44**Links**:
45
46[FSFE: A restriction on technological
47restrictions](https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150506-01.en.html)