Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
On 11-May-05, at 9:18 AM, Bill Reid wrote:
Here is a company that is trying to make money at producing the firmware:
And they are breaking the GPL by refusing to release the source and
The source for the released version is available: http://www.wrt54g.com/
They have also implemented a mechanism that locks a specific download of the firmware to a specific router (by MAC and serial number).
I have not seen this. I run the same binary on two routers.
Here is a slashdot article (I can't find the other site I read about a bunch of this stuff)...
A comment from the Slashdot article: "The thread summary at DSLReports only makes it clear that this is all very complicated." I agree it is not as open as other projects.
The $20/yr is for support and access to the pre-release version of the software. The debate is whether they have to release the source for the pre-release. Isn't this sort of like what sendmail and ghostscript are doing?
I have no problems supporting their effort.
-- Bill