Re: GNU licenses

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   In a similar vein, there was a time when electronic appliances were
   required to include schematics in some countries.  Take any
   electronic device from, say, somewhere between 1920 to 1980, and
   open it, and you'll find a schematic somewhere inside, or
   alternatively, in the instruction leaflet accompanying it.

I miss those times, now you can't even get the semantics for a
multimeter to fix it if it gets broke.  Do you know which countries
has such requirements?  And why they got removed?