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Jumat, 04 Januari 2008

History of the WRT54G Open Source Firmware

At some point in early 2003, Andrew Miklas posted several times to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/6/7/164) about his discovery that Linksys was using General Public License (GPL) code in the firmware for the Linksys WRT54G. As part of the GPL, anyone who modifies the open code is required to release her modification back to the community, and Andrew was unable to locate the source for the modifications. Andrew opened communication with Linksys in order to get the modified software released back to the community, and he gathered some significant support in this endeavor.

Linux enthusiasts were made aware of Linksys’ use of open source software by several postings to Slashdot in June 2003.The Slashdot and Linux communities rallied to support the GPL, and made their opinions known that Linksys should comply with the GPL. Given the enormous pressure from the community, and a group of executives that understood the GPL at Linksys, Linksys released its modified code to the public under the GPL. In June 2003, Rob Flickenger posted to his O’Reilly blog about work that he had been performing during Hack Night sessions with Seattle Wireless. During these postings, Rob linked to the start of the tools for building your own custom firmware. Additionally, Andrew made some additional postings to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on methods and issues with cross-compiling code for the Linksys WRT54G.

From this point forward, we were able to create our own firmware, and many individuals did just that.This resulted in a number of different firmware versions, all with different add-ons.We will discuss a number of these firmware versions throughout this blog.

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