#16818: Channel 13 disabled for Austria?
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: highest | Milestone: Barrier Breaker (trunk)
Component: packages | Version: Trunk
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords:
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Comment (by anonymous):
Law reasons: In most countries law delegates most of these frequency
allocation issues to a regulatory authority. If a device is compliant with
regulations, it is basically free to use.
On the other hand we would have to say, that OpenWRT and "open" (aka open
source third party drivers) are a modification to the device too. These
modifications would usually void the permission for the whole device, if
the manufacturer of a device does not himself ships the device with
OpenWRT preinstalled and has applied for admission or has equipped the
device with a letter of conformity for the market.
As far as I am informed, devices for the ETSI-controlled market are
shipped with ETSI-compliant frequency sets. Why should OpenWRT have a
license issue other than explained before, if it used the correct
channels. And, why should one compile the whole firmware in order to
achieve, what is legally possible.
Ok, there is the jow reghack... that does not violate the license? That's
legal nonsense, too.
Please find a more appropriate way of doing so.
In the current way you may even make users break the law (anti-hacking
laws in some european countries) themselves, if they still have the
knowledge or the (technical) ressources or the skills of a software
engineer to correctly compile the images.
I still guess, that many openwrt users are not technicians, but users, who
want to alleviate the restrictions of their devices - e.g. enhance multi-
SSID-capabilities, using a print server, making a 3G-Gateway or using
VLANs. Probably OpenWRT should use some (original) closed source drivers,
the users already paid for when the bought their hardware.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16818#comment:18>
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