Cum 27 Oca 2006 01:45 tarihinde, Michael Buesch şunları yazmıştı: > 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.
Well with a simple analogy, selling knife is illegal too, so you can go and kill someone with that knife... /ismail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
