OpenWrt One round 2 of 2

DiffieHellman mailing_list at middlendian.com
Tue Mar 4 03:51:19 UTC 2025


Hi CSS review,

I've reviewed the source candidate and I've found that in the resulting image there are proprietary derivative works of Linux without source code?:
lib/firmware/airoha:
EthMD32.dm.bin  EthMD32.DSP.bin

lib/firmware/mediatek:
mt7981_rom_patch.bin  mt7981_wa.bin  mt7981_wm.bin  mt7981_wo.bin

This doesn't seem very GPLv2-compliant, after all, the source code is not complete as it contains proprietary binaries.

If they are not derivative works, I'm sure you'd be able to delete Linux and still be able to use the software just as well, but that doesn't seem to be the case.


There are also some unexplained files under "eip197_minifw" (i.e. lib/firmware/inside-secure/eip197_minifw/ifpp.bin lib/firmware/inside-secure/eip197_minifw/ipue.bin), which appear to be merely
configuration data due to their short length, but documentation of such data format should really be included.

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Kind Regards, DiffieHellman


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