Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderl...@open-mesh.com> [2016-11-15 11:51:54]:
> Hey Petr, Hi! > We don't have any influence on the production decisions, though. sure, I'm not blaming any of you, I understand this, it's very hard :-) > But as Sven said, please contact customer support. I'm sure they will find a > solution for you. I'm not selfish, I've started wasting my time on this, so we've solution which works for everybody. But I'll try to ask customer support and share the outcome. > Well, we are. We can't change the fact that the devices need to be locked to > be sold in the US. You see, this is getting really crazy all this quick FCC workarounds... Imagine following situation. OpenMesh support will give me for example unlocked U-Boot bootloader for OM5P-AC or I'll pay someone to dissasemble it and patch it so U-Boot doesn't need any signed images at all, or we keep this security by obscurity in place and use it with just custom keys. Then anybody in the world, including US citizens can download it and unlock their devices. IANAL, it's still GPL licensed software, even in binary form, so I'm probably not going to break any law doing this. But law can be interpreted in many ways so just to be safe, I'm actually considering some help, probably via FSF. > But if you google a little, you will find a lot of patches for various Open > Source projects signed by @open-mesh.com mail addresses (LEDE, Linux, > hostapd, etc) Sure, I know! Exactly opposite, you're doing great work, I recognize the work of you, Sven, Antonio and Marek for example even without your @openmesh.com addresses. So I know, that developers like you are strong opensource minded people. We probably just need to change thinking of management people, the almost impossible task. I'm not interested in sources of OpenMesh's proprietary Cloudtrax stuff, I don't care about it. I just want to have an option to be able to rebuild the opensource parts so I can find & fix any potential problems very quickly. Few years ago it was possible to rebuild the firmware minus the proprietary stuff from dev.cloudtrax.com sources. It's not possible for a long time anymore. > FYI, the decryption stuff has been released now. It was considered too dirty > for upstream for a long time, but it was decided to at least provide the > patch > in public now for others to clean it up: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9381651/ Great, thanks a lot everybody involved! > The other strings shouldn't be anything Open-Mesh specific, but maybe from a > different version (or patchset), as far as I can tell. Ok, so what's the problem with OpenMesh management people? :-) Why not just put all the sources online again? So I'm able to build firmware minus Cloudtrax proprietary bits without much hassle. Christmas is comming! :-) -- ynezz _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
