I've mentioned Ubiquiti Networks's products on the list here a few times, and have since purchased some of their hardware. Disappointingly I read the posting below. -Tom
Four ways Ubiquiti Networks is creatively violating the GPL http://libertybsd.net/ubiquiti/ ...they have been violating the GPL. However, because they did it creatively, most people don't know about it, and Ubiquiti still hasn't come into compliance. ... [They refuse] to provide the source to their modified bootloader, even though they made changes that introduced security vulnerabilities. ... It would be natural to think that the binaries that Ubiquiti provides were compiled from the source code that Ubiquti provides. As it turns out, for a large number of their releases, the kernel source given does not correspond to the kernel in the official firmware images. ... It's possible that this was just a mistake, but remember that people have complained about this without much of a response. ... ...I have been trying to contact Ubiquiti for the past year about the issue of the u-boot source code. ... In fact, I even got a copyright holder of u-boot to ask for the source, and they still haven't provided it. From my conversations with Ubiquiti, I have found that they claimed that it's alright to refuse to provide source code to GPL-licensed software if "This decision was taken with the security of the users in mind". _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss