On Friday 27 January 2006 00:10, you wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 11:04 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > > >>If someone has a reverse-engineered HAL that might could > >>be used as well. > > > > > > From a quick look at the HAL asm code (mips-le), I think > > symbol names are obfuscated. So reverse engineering > > is Not Easy (tm). > > No doubt. It also may be illegal (IANAL) to provide an open-source > HAL in the US due to FCC restrictions because it gives users > an easy way to screw up frequencies not legally available to > them. That seems to be the primary reason why it is binary-only > in the first place.
Uhm, So in your opinion the bcm43xx driver is illegal in the US, because you can modify bcm43xx_radio_selectchannel() to tune to illegal freqs? I don't know the law, but I doubt that. IMHO it is not the software, which does illegal things, but the _user_, which tunes to these freqs. -- Greetings Michael.
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