On Friday 27 January 2006 01:04, you wrote: > In order to get FCC certification the manufacturer must ensure there is > no easy way for the user to tune to illegal frequencies. Broadcom has > done their job - it was not easy to reverse engineer their driver. Now > the cat is out of the bag. The open source driver is not illegal - > although it may be illegal to use it - since the chipset and driver were > likely certified together. I'm no expert in FCC regulation, so take all > of this with a pinch of salt.
Ah, I see your point. I remember something like the following from the old 2.4 days (no idea if it still applies to the 2.6 drivers). An MD5 checksum of the lowlevel HiSax ISDN drivers was certified. So if you modify the source (which is allowed by the GPL), you would loose certification. -- Greetings Michael.
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