Talk:OpenWrt

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[edit] Sveasoft counterclaim

The article originally had a link here indicating that Sveasoft claimed "that OpenWRT was illegally distributing software copyrighted by Sveasoft and Broadcom under the GPL". However, that citation makes no such claim. It only says that these packages (most or all of which were not written by Sveasoft and therefore not copyrighted by them) are released under terms different from the GPL or LGPL. As an example, libpcap is released under the terms of the BSD license if I am not mistaken. I believe the person who added this information initially was in error and I have marked the information with the fact tag to indicate a dispute. If no reliable citation can be found within a week (and if no significant disputes are raised here), I will remove the information about Sveasoft's counterclaim. --Yamla 17:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

This has now been cited appropriately. Thanks, Stereo!  :) --Yamla 15:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Do sveasoft really have any claim? The original linksys firmware is GPL open source, Sveasoft's firmware is a modified version of the original Linksys firmware, which is also under GPL. modern versions of OpenWrt contain no original code and were basically linux distros to themselves built from the ground up, much like an LFS distro. They're not even based on sveasoft or linksys source. linux distros have BSD licensed packages all the time and BSD occasionally has something under the GPL like GCC.--KX36 19:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On Portal:Free software, OpenWrt is currently the selected article

Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was PaX. Gronky 15:41, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

The selected article has moved on and is now DragonFly BSD. Gronky 17:29, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Openwrt-logo.png

Image:Openwrt-logo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 23:37, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is OpenWrt really “GNU/Linux”?

I believe it's misleading to call OpenWrt GNU/Linux; it uses the µClibc library and busybox environment. On my little box, it seems the only GNU packages installed are libgcc and GNU nano. For reference, there are 212 references to “Linux” in the OpenWrt wiki, but only 16 references to “GNU/Linux”, so calling OpenWrt a “Linux distribution” seems consistent with the nomenclature of the project itself.

Personally, I find the entire GNU/Linux controversy somewhat silly, but I believe the arguments for prepending “GNU” aren't relevant to this particular instance.

DanChr 10:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I think you are quite right. I've fixed the article. -- Jon Dowland 10:20, 7 August 2007 (UTC)