On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:38 +0200, drago01 wrote: > But where do you draw the line? > A "crack-inspired" judge might argue that the fact that regulation is > done in software is a problem regardless of the drivers license / > nature. There's actually some merit in that position. But still there's very little excuse for distinguishing between closed-source and open-source software. Poking out a conditional jump and turning it into a NOP, or changing an immediate value used for a comparison to enforce regulatory restrictions is *easy* in a binary driver. As I said, it's actually *easier* for end-users to do that than it is for them to patch and rebuild a driver from source. Perhaps we should get the folks working on reverse-engineering the binary b43 drivers to release such hacks, to reinforce that point. Like the one I had for the MGA hallib a few years ago, where you dd a zero byte to a certain location and it would turn off Macrovision on all the outputs... -- dwmw2 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
