On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 8:24:09 AM Mountain Standard Time Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Add regulatory challenges to the list. For example, in some > jurisdictions it's illegal to distribute radio hardware capable of > receiving or broadcasting at specific frequencies, and which > frequencies are legal varies from location to location; so if a > manufacturer wants to impose those limits in software in order not > to have to produce different circuitry for every part of the world > they sell their device in, they can't legally make at least some > parts of that source code available.
This is an additional concern that hasn’t so far been addressed in this thread. It is something that comes up in discussions about OpenWrt from time to time. Ultimately, we won’t be able to make full progress on the issue of open hardware without changing some laws and the attitudes behind them. This will probably end up being a gargantuan task. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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