On 2008-09-16, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO [email protected] wrote:
Can older wireless routers be converted to OpenWRT?
Your best bet on the SMC Barricade and Motorola router is to search for their model numbers and OpenWRT on Google or in the OpenWRT Wiki http://wiki.openwrt.org/ Documented successes and obstacles for various models of hardware can be found at http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware
Never heard of "AfferoGPL" before or itenti.ca, and Gregarious.
The full text of the AGPLv3, translations, and FAQ, are available at http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
The AGPL was created to allow software authors to close what some people would call the SaaS (Software as a Service) loophole. The GPL compels distributors of a modified GPL program to provide freedom to its recipients. However, it is becoming more and more common for people to use "software" without ever having received a copy of it, and thus, without it ever having been distributed. Everything from blogs to online auction houses can be seen as "software", even though it ultimately only returns static html documents to a user's browser. Under the traditional GPL, companies may obtain, and modify FLOSS without providing freedom to their users if their users don't specifically receive that software, and instead only interact with it over a network. Authors choosing the AGPL instead of the GPL don't think that should matter. The AGPL gives the same freedom to users that the GPL gives to recipients.
Chris Bier told me about Gregarious when I mentioned I didn't particularly have any need for Google to be 'in charge' of my rss feeds. Gregarious is only GPL, not AGPL, so it's possible say, for Google to obtain a copy, modify it and add features, call it Google Reader++, but never share their code with anyone else. The AGPL would allow the original project to benefit, and allow users to run their own server for privacy, security, and sovereignty if they chose.