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[Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED



On 10/1/2015 11:22 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> "Because I want to make money" is not, last I checked, an acceptable excuse
> for violating license terms.  I don't see how that would be different from
> selling cracked copies of Windows.

If the FCC were to rule the terms of the GPL to be unenforceable in the 
context of regulated devices then there would be no violations. As I 
wrote before, a software license cannot overrule FCC regs.

-- 
Rich P.



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