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Hello, you probably all know what OpenWRT is
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nbd's one of the main developers (Felix Fietkau)
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He's here to tell you about the last 10 years of OpenWRT
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Felix: Yes, thank you.
applause
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The OpenWRT project was started a bit over 10 years ago
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I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect back on
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where the whole project came from
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and how much it has changed and evolved over time,
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based on the progress we have made
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So first I'd like to tell you a bit about what happened in the early days
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As many of you know and as the name OpenWRT
still implies
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it started out pretty much as a firmware for the old WRT54G
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The effort to create this firmware started when
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basically it was discovered that this device, using a Broadcom chip,
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was using Linux as its base operating system
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initially it was a pretty huge GPL violation
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because Linksys didn't release
any source code for the device
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but that of course didn't stop interested people from trying to hack it by looking into the inner workings of the firmware
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discovering the limitations of it,
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then starting to create a replacement for that firmware
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and this was done in the early days based on the uclibc buildroot
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which was a pretty small and flexible
environment to quickly bring up code
for a new target
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and uclibc had the advantage of being much smaller than glibc which I think the initial device used
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it started out by basically taking the Linksys GPL tarball once it was released
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which only happened because many people, many of were members of the Linux kernel community
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actively fought for the source code being released
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and there was a lot of GPL compliance engineering involved in that effort as well
