On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:22:19PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
Add regulatory challenges to the list. For example, in some jurisdictions it's illegal to distribute radio hardware capable of receiving or broadcasting at specific frequencies, and which frequencies are legal varies from location to location; so if a manufacturer wants to impose those limits in software in order not to have to produce different circuitry for every part of the world they sell their device in, they can't legally make at least some parts of that source code available.This is an additional concern that hasn’t so far been addressed in this thread. It is something that comes up in discussions about OpenWrt from timeto time.
It also comes up in all instances of this discussion in Debian *shrug* -- WBR, wRAR
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