Why would violating FCC regulations prevent it from being merged? There are plenty of Linux users who do not live within the jurisdiction of the FCC. Similarly,

Why would violating FCC regulations prevent it from being merged? There are plenty of Linux users who do not live within the jurisdiction of the FCC. Similarly, there are many regions which forbid certain spectrum use which the FCC allows. Surely it'd make way more sense to just have a locale configuration option, rather than only allowing the intersection of all radio emission rules worldwide?