[$] A build system aimed at license compliance

Date:
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:17:37 +0000

Description:
The OpenWrt One is a
router powered by the open-source firmware from the OpenWrt project ; it was also the subject of a keynote at SCALE in 2025 given by Denver Gingerich of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC),
which played a big role in developing the router. Gingerich returned to
the conference in
2026 to talk about the build system used by the OpenWrt One, which is
focused on creating the needed binaries, naturally, but doing so in a way
that makes it easy to comply with the licenses of the underlying code.
That makes good sense for a project of this sortand for a talk given by
the director of compliance at SFC.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066103/


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