> I don't think that documentation and tooling is required to be provided currently by federal law. It is, but they can charge some amount for it (not prohibit

> I don't think that documentation and tooling is required to be provided currently by federal law. It is, but they can charge some amount for it (not prohibitively though). The biggest problems in R2R generally in the U.S. seem to stem from misuse of the DMCA as a mechanism to prevent modification of physical goods by making those goods rely on what they can argue are copyright protection devices (and thus difficult to legally circumvent).