All, I work for the prpl Foundation, an open source foundation organized by a number of companies, most related to MIPS. One project we work with externally is the OpenWrt project. Recently one of our members mentioned a new FCC requirement (described in FCC publication 594280) which requires wifi hardware devices to restrict modifications in ways that were not previously required. Some of the suggestions the company had internally for complying would be to use features like Secure Boot and other types of DRM-like mechanisms to prevent routers from being modified. This obviously would be quite bad for the OpenWrt community (and the embedded Linux community as a whole) so we agreed as a group to try to provide hardware companies with a way of complying without harming the community. I'm looking to find individuals (and other companies!) interested in working with myself and the foundation, companies, the OpenWrt community and eventually regulators to provide guidance to hardware companies on how to best comply with these rules. If you're interested in getting involved or just would like to know more, please get in touch with me. We want to make sure that routers and related embedded Linux hardware is hackable and we could use all the help we could get. Thanks and I look forward to working with you, Eric -- Eric Schultz, Community Manager, prpl Foundation http://www.prplfoundation.org eschultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cell: 920-539-0404 skype: ericschultzwi @EricPrpl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
