CODEC & Software Defined Radio legalities
Given the existence of open projects such as the TAPR's Software Defined Radio, I was wondering what the legalities might be for writing or using various decoding software implementations.
Aside of actually receiving a portable phone of some sort, I don't know of any legal reason one couldn't use an open source CODEC, even one that was reverse engineered. But I'm no expert on this. Perhaps others are more versed in the law than I am.
So, for example, if someone wrote a CODEC for an IDEN system, is it legal to distribute, and is it legal to use?
Jake Brodsky
AB3A
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