Openwrt licensing violation

Nicolas Morais nmorais.st at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 11:20:23 PST 2024


Greetings, my name is Nicolas.

Recently, I found OpenWrt being distributed as part of a closed-source 
firmware, in devices manufactured by Askey, and this seemed to be a 
violation against GPLv2, the license of OpenWrt:

   > cat /proc/version
<<<mirror on>>>
Linux version 3.4.11-rt19+ (openwrt at sw3-pc) (gcc version 4.6.2
(Buildroot 2011.11) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 15 15:34:14 CST 2019

I'm willing to contact Askey to warn them about this possible violation 
of GPLv2. I wrote to FSF, regarding this suspicion, and they suggested 
me to contact this project to ask if any of you know of any firmware 
distributions from Askey's website.


Thanks.




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