>>> [...binary-only driver...]  By FCC regulations, [...]
> They have restrictions, as I understand it, that you can't let out
> drivers that can tune to inapropriate channels or set the power too
> high.  While they don't own the driver, they do control the (radio)
> license the vendor needs to be able to sell the card. :-|

...in the USA.

Which we all know is all there is to the world. :-|

(Cue "copy protection" pro/con thread.)

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