OpenWRT issued a statement recently that claims that Sveasoft has used OpenWRT code without giving back to the community, therefore in violation of section 4 of the GNU General Public License.
Section 4:
You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.
So basically Sveasoft lost its license as soon as they decided not to play fair. Will this go to court? How will it stand in court? Are they still playing legal? Are they breaking the spirit of the license?
Sveasoft and OpenWRT both make firmware "upgrades" for the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. BUT NOT v5. Version 5 runs the real-time operating system Vxworks and all known hacks are useless.
http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/
I have one WRT54G running a once free Sveasoft firmware, works great.
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