nbd/Felix Fietkau and I had an email discussion where I informed him that any Sveasoft subscriber can request subscriber-only source via a PM to me on our forums and that no one has ever been told "no".
I also offered to immediately build a tarball for whatever release rridley/Ephraim claimed he had asked for and was told "no". (He didn't ask and was never told "no", though he was banned from the forums for flamebaiting and threatening me in PM's).
Though I had asked nbd/Felix Fietkau to a) keep the discussion private and b) we were willing to make any reasonable changes to keep him happy nbd cut off the discussion without offering ay compromise, with no conditions he wanted met so could eliminate whatever issue he sees as our "violation" of the GPL, without accepting a source tarball for his personal approval so we could end this matter with rridley/Ephraim, in short the exchange was simply used to fan this flame thread. So there is no where to go with this from our viewpoint. No one is seeking a solution. This is simply public showboating.
And let's be completely frank - the real issue is that the GNU culture does not want anyone charging for software or profiting from software development.
Should anyone from OpenWRT actually want to solve this issue I am all ears.
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Anyone who wants full source code to public firmware, please see the Downloads link on our forums. The full Alchemy source has been there for months. You can also find most of this source in any DD-WRT source tarball.
Any subscriber who wants a buildable source tarball that will build the exact same firmware image he/she can download as a binary from our Downloads server please PM me on our forums.
The next Sveasoft subscriber-only firmware release will occur concommitment with the release of our online source build system, which will automate source tarball creation. Source tarballs will build the *exact* binary downloaded by a subscriber - auth system and all. Some non-GPL parts will be binary only most non-GPL and all GPL components will be released with full source.
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The Sveasoft forums are a place where politeness and respect for others are not optional. Generally anyone who is posting abusive, flame, or flamebaiting posts is warned once, then shown the door. 99% of the time I also send a full refund of their $20, even though they may have downloaded firmware multiple times and received support for many months. In those few instances a refund is not sent it is because the poster knowingly violated our posting guidelines after a warning with the express intent of a confrontation - as in rridley/Ephraim's case
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Oh, and - Nazis!
Godwin - check
(Last edited by sveasoft on 22 Mar 2006, 12:08)