Subject: Re: Binary only drivers in sys?
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/25/2003 15:17:51
>>> [...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. :-|

(Cue "copy protection" pro/con thread.)

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