linux-kernel - Re: Binary Drivers

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Message-Id: <200612220038.kBM0cKbx004098@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:38:20 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>
Cc:	davids@...master.com,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Binary Drivers

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:12:57 CST, Scott Preece said:
> On 12/21/06, David Schwartz <davids@...master.com> wrote:

> > How would you feel if you bought a car and then discovered that the
> > manufacturer had welded the hood shut? How many people still do their own
> > oil changes anyway?
> ---
> 
> But there is no legal or moral obligation for the carmake to sell you
> the service manual for the vehicle or provide you with their periodic
> service bulletins...

As a matter of fact, at least in the US, the carmakers *do* have to supply
relevant information for emissions-control systems to alll repair shops:

42 U.S.C. § 7521(m)(5)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00007521----000-.html

Efforts to vastly expand that have been surfacing every Congressional session
for the last few years.  The most recent incarnation:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-2048


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