2010/1/31 Dmitry Samoyloff <dsamoyl...@yandex.ru>: > michael wrote: >> To gnewsense users: >> >> I did some investigation of the license for intel ipw3945. >> The sttached .html is from their web-site. I hope this helps. >> >> Michael >> > >>Q. Why don't you allow modification and re-engineering of the binaries? >>A. To operate a radio device, the hardware/firmware combination needs to be >>FCC (and equivalent in other countries) certified; this excludes end user >>modification which would void the certification. > > Sounds like a bullsh%t to me. Why then we have libre Wi-fi drivers at all?
I agree, but it seems to be a common theme: See "Addressing vendor concerns" at [1]. Attorneys at the Software Freedom Law Center performed their own analysis at [2]. [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/vendors/VendorSupport [2] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/fcc-sdr-whitepaper.html _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
