Am 02.12.2014 um 01:31 schrieb John W. Linville:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:27:25PM -0600, Eric Schultz wrote:
>> 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,
> 
> Obviously, I would be interested in hearing more.  I suspect there
> are others on the list that will be interested as well...

I'm interested as well.


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Oleksij