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by vlovich123 638 days ago
I think you happened to miss the point about regulatory requirements that make this difficult/impossible to accomplish for the radio vendor. I think the proliferation of SDR is the only hope to change the broader regulatory culture but until that happens you're not going to see a shift.

I think it's also rich calling GPL compliance faux open source. There really is no true Scotsman.
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ImPostingOnHN 636 days ago
What are those regulatory requirements, and what do they say?

Thank you.

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vlovich123 636 days ago
https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=zXtrctoj6zH7o...

Manufacturers of radios have to prevent the ability to behave in a non-compliant manner. One way of accomplishing that is preventing the user from updating software to non-official versions. Another is to prevent the small subset of functionality to be updated by non-official versions. This isn't a new requirement and has been around since forever.

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