TP-Link and the FCC

[Steve Song]

In other news this week, TP-Link have reached a settlement with the FCC which states that they will pay a fine for having shipped devices that can be configured to run above the Type-approval standards.  More interestingly for me is that they are also being compelled to cooperate with Open Source projects and make sure that open source firmwares remain installable on their equipment.  Good news!  More info at 

https://lwn.net/Articles/695994/

[T Gillett]

Indeed an interesting back-flip by FCC.

    https://build.slashdot.org/story/16/08/01/1855206/fcc-requires-tp-link-to-support-open-source-router-firmware

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Steve Song <st...@villagetelco.org> wrote:

In other news this week, TP-Link have reached a settlement with the FCC which states that they will pay a fine for having shipped devices that can be configured to run above the Type-approval standards.  More interestingly for me is that they are also being compelled to cooperate with Open Source projects and make sure that open source firmwares remain installable on their equipment.  Good news!  More info at 

https://lwn.net/Articles/695994/

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[Carlos Rey-Moreno]

Good news indeed!

Thanks for sharing

Carlos

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