Notice to vendor reps.

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 NMEA extensions or their own more tightly-designed reporting formats.
 This is a collection of descriptions of them.  Many of these have
 already been used in the implementation of <code>gpsd</code>; others
-may be used in the future.  Some are theoretically evil, but in
-practice the vendors don't care.</p>
+may be used in the future.</p>
 
 <p>If you have access to a GPS vendor manual we don't already carry,
 please send it to us.  If it's live on the web, mailing the URL will
 be sufficient.  The names in this <a href='checksums'>SHA1 checksums
 file</a> should be a good clue which ones we already have.</p>
 
+<p>Judging by the legal notices in them, either (a) many GPS vendors
+are run by people who think that making their documentation hard to
+get and illegal to redistribute doesn't damage their sales prospects, or
+(b) many GPS vendors unthinkingly slap in a boilerplate notice that
+makes them look like they are run by the aforementioned sort of
+idiot. We are blithely ignoring all this nonsense here.  If you are a
+a GPS vendor representative, be advised that if you so request, we
+will (a) remove your manuals, and then (b) laugh at and publicly mock
+your stupidity.</p>
+
 <h2>SiRF and SiRF variants</h2>
 
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