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

[John Abreau]

The FCC ruling the GPL to be unenforceable in the context of regulated
devices would be essentially no different from the FCC ruling Microsoft's
licenses to be unenforceable in the context of vendors using cracked copies
of Windows in regulated devices.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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