Howdy all,
Tonight I shared the news that ThinkPenguin have put together
<URL:https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter2>
a wireless router with all free software (the operating system is
LibreCMC <URL:http://librecmc.org/>).
I also referred to the news that ThinkPenguin's work has earned them a
chapter in the GPL Tutorial and Guide at copyleft.org:
Too often, case studies examine failure and mistakes. Indeed, most
of the chapters that follow herein will consider the myriad
difficulties discovered in community-oriented GPL enforcement for
the last two decades. However, to begin, this is a case study in how
copyleft compliance can indeed be done correctly.
This example is, in fact, more than ten years in the making. Since
almost the inception of for-profit corporate adoption of Free
Software, companies have requested a clear example of a model
citizen to emulate. Sadly, while community-oriented enforcers have
vetted uncounted thousands of “Complete, Corresponding Source” (CCS)
candidates from hundreds of companies, this particular CCS release
described herein is the first ever declared a “pristine example”.
<URL:https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech22.html>
This is a good example to trumpet for increasing software freedom in a
field (currently-available consumer electronics) where such examples are
few and far between.
--
\ “Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one |
`\ unpardonable sin.” —Thomas Henry Huxley, _Essays on |
_o__) Controversial Questions_, 1889 |
Ben Finney
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