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Re: Sveasoft's vs WiFi-Box said by Morac:
said by PorkRind:
There, does that help? 
The one thing I didn't think too much about until you brought it up was that WiFi-Box is ignoring the GNU GPL which is very bad from both a legal and ethical standpoint. It makes it worse that he has stated that he borrowed code (static DHCP) from people posting in the Sveasoft forums and included them in his firmware (I would think they would be annoyed at that).
Well if its open source like you say and it should be shared, then it shouldn't matter if he does use some of the sveasoft code as long as the person gets credit for their work.
Personally I feel that most of the stuff sveasoft is adding most people will not use in my opinion. WDS from what little I understand, shares your internet connection with a wide area, which to me seems very risky.
One thing I like is that Wifi organizes the new options on the menus instead of putting them all on one page like the sveasoft firmware does.
I'm more disappointed in Linksys for putting out a router firmware lacking features compared to other lesser known brands. So much so that we have to resort to using hacked firmware to get features (which probably is a security risk in itself). | |
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| said by tc17:
Well if its open source like you say and it should be shared, then it shouldn't matter if he does use some of the sveasoft code as long as the person gets credit for their work.
Unfortunately that's not how GPL works. Since LinkSys uses GPLed code (linux) for their router they have to, by law, release the source code for any derived code (meaning that it wasn't 100% developed by them). Similarly if someone takes LinkSys's source code and modifies it they have to release the source code if they release the binary. That's how the GPL works. It's not just open source, it's GPL open source. So if WiFi-Box releases the binary but does not make the source code available his is violating the GNU GPL and thereby violating the copyright license.
said by tc17:
Personally I feel that most of the stuff sveasoft is adding most people will not use in my opinion. WDS from what little I understand, shares your internet connection with a wide area, which to me seems very risky.
I've read they've added QOS ability to the router which is useful if you use VOIP. They also came up with the static DHCP implementation and remote logging which is useful to home users. A list of features is here though some of it is a bit cryptic and I don't think it's complete.
I agree though that most of the hacked firmwares put LinkSys's one to shame. Linksys should fire their firmware writing team and hire these guys. | |
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