Hello!

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:38 -0400, Michael Miller wrote:

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> In my opinion, protection should not be in the software for such
> things. While Atheros may be required by law to do this, madwifi (this
> is NOT legal advice in any way shape or form) is not required to do
> so.

It's a separate effort from MadWifi, not limited to specific wireless
drivers.

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> One comparison which can be made to this situation is that of VLC.
> Whereas commercial DVD playing apps look at region codes, VLC ignores
> them. VLC could choose to abide by these codes and put code in to stop
> the wrong region from playing, but the project chooses not to. Madwifi
> should do the same.

The difference here is that wireless developers actually expect to work
with the device vendors.  The vendors may be more forthcoming if the
free driver supports regulatory control (directly or through some other
layers).

Anyway, the regulatory control patches are discussed in
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, not here.

Please don't cross-post unless you are a member of the team and you are
making an announcement.  You are giving a bad example to others.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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