To express a willingness amongst community developers to take a responsible position with regard to enforcement of wireless regulations.

It should be reasonably impossible for a user to fail to comply with local regulations either unwittingly or by accident.

Default configurations should err in favor of more restrictive behavior in order to protect unwitting users.

Configurations that have no known compliant usage should not be part of the 'official' kernel tree.

Configurations that are compliant only under special circumstances (e.g. with special licenses) should not be part of the 'official' kernel tree. Any exceptions should have their legal requirements clearly marked and those options should never be configured by default.

Configurations that disable regulatory enforcement mechanisms should not be part of the 'official' kernel tree.

The kernel should rely on userland components to determine regulatory policy. Consequently, the kernel's regulatory enforcement mechanisms should be flexible enough to cover known or reasonably anticipated regulatory policies.

It is the moral duty of responsible distribution vendors, software developers, and community members to make every good faith effort to ensure proper compliance with applicable regulations regarding wireless communications.