I contacted Riley to see if he's brought this to the FSF or Software
Freedom Conservancy for help.
It's good to ask people politely to comply with the law; and good to out
them when they persistently refuse.
Greg Rundlett
http://eQuality-Tech.com
http://freephile.org
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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