Another price increase? Change: Librem 5 fighting about if open source

[Quarnero]

@reC

as far as i know that is illegal to be made free-software

Yes, it is illegal, but if not free-software and therefore I’m not allowed (not free) to update/upgrade my (future) non-free modem firmware, is this somewhat weird? And, we must be talking here about BroadMobi 4G module BM818 M.2 or any other similar (like Neoway 4G module N720 Mini PCIe) that are based on Qualcomm MDM9607 chip**:

Or eventually, download and upgrade particular Linux modem with approved (and current) firmware that is allowed as part of non-free Linux Sources, through some Purism-customer-only logon download-site or reachable just through official regional (USA or EU, etc.) OTA update images, from BroadMobi or Thales Group or some method like LVFS from https://fwupd.org/, other method not known to me, as I’m not an expert.

My above food for thought was based on:

@tg_gpm

However, the “Respects Your Freedom”-badge from the FSF, which Purism strives to achieve, prevents Purism to ship firmware updates for the modem, since that would require Purism to ship non-free firmware.
This could lead to future exploits at least for the modem portion (though the OS is unlikely to be attackable from that angle).

@tommes

This is still an IoT optimized modem but from Qualcomm and not some smaller company (so maybe its optimized for power similar to the consumer modem versions).

**Quectel EC20 4G module internal structure. Here is link, for example, to available EC20 firmware revisions. And if not having/using Windows PC is there another way to update modem firmware? Still, similar method might be promising, see EC20 link, under tab Files.