Subject: Re: Binary only drivers in sys?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/25/2003 13:04:35
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, der Mouse wrote:

> >>> [...binary-only driver...]  By FCC regulations, [...]
> > They have restrictions, as I understand it, that you can't let out
> > drivers that can tune to inapropriate channels or set the power too
> > high.  While they don't own the driver, they do control the (radio)
> > license the vendor needs to be able to sell the card. :-|
>
> ...in the USA.
>
> Which we all know is all there is to the world. :-|

No, it's not all there is in the world. It however is (as I understand it)
where the company making the driver and the person porting it are both
located. It is also where the TNF is located (as a legal entity). Thus we
do have to care. :-|

Take care,

Bill