Comments on: Foneras are Open Source

By: ScaredyCat

ScaredyCat — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:32:43 +0000

http://download.fon.com/firmware/fonera/latest/fonera.tar.bz2

but it’ll be useless to you. Fon is opensource in the same way that Tivo is opensource. This is exactly why the gpl v3 came about.Don’t use signed images, or at least give us the means to bypass this requirement.

By: Grega

Grega — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:51:23 +0000

Hi,

The posts here seem to date back to the year 2006.
And I am still unable to download any sources at the URL: http://www.fon.com/en/download
I also checked the posts made in November and December 2006 and there were no news
regarding that issue.

As far as I got this, no matter who you notified, this was and still is a GPL violation.

By: Claudiu Balciza

Claudiu Balciza — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:53:48 +0000

was the WiFi vulnerability patched ? http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/ae2af266-5874-4861-8ad7-128dfaed2261.html

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:30:49 +0000

Olivier,

Don’t become a FONero now. But pls do become one as soon as we sort this issue which should be in the next 2 weeks. We will post the news in this blog.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:34:41 +0000

This is the kind of things why I hesitate to become a fonero :
You say “We have notified the GPL people [..]”
Very interesting… what about the foneros and the will be foneros ?
You are claiming that FON’s power commes from its community but it looks like there is a strong communication problem between FON and the community.

And, I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think that “notifying the GPL people” is enough. And even if Atheros have not given it’s OK for it’s code (a WiFi driver I suppose), you can show the rest of the code (I immagine it’s a modified/optimised OpenWRT).

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:03:58 +0000

No, it does not mean that. We have notified the GPL people and told them that we have the delay and they said its ok. They accept our explanation and that we will release the code in November.

By: freechelmi

freechelmi — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:59:02 +0000

So why having lock the SSH and firwmare update ? afraid that people go for a free-for-all solution with la fonera ?

I can’t see how you want to be “open” and ship such blackBox …

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:48:03 +0000

Does this mean you are currently distributing your firmware in violation of the original OpenWrt (and other) GPLs?

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:14:53 +0000

I just can hope that the certification will be faster than the support…