翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 20:38:18 JST
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@tatsumoto @theregister "OpenWRT" was originally almost free software and resulted from the FSF's copyright enforcement action for the software used on the WRT54G (it would be fully free if it wasn't for the proprietary software in the alleged sources of Linux, although the WRT54G didn't depend on any of such software, so it wasn't compiled into the binaries).
Later "Open"WRT was made proprietary, with proprietary packages in the repositories and proprietary software included by default on many routers.
The "OpenWrt One" runs proprietary software and of course such proprietary software is an act of copyright infringement, with proprietary derivative works of Linux running as peripheral software on the Wi-Fi card (with contributory infringement carried out by the software nonfreedom conservancy, who want that sweet 10USD per unit sold and figure they'll get away with such copyright infringement too).