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Gl.iNet no longer open source? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by root@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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After looking into travel routers a bit, I quickly came across Gl.iNet which seems to be a leader in the space. It seems they use OpenWRT which is great, but with some special sauce on top of it.

In a few different posts I've seen people mention that they are no longer open source. Does anyone know if this is the case? I see some activity on their Github repo, but am not quite sure which parts people are worried about being closed.

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you share links for those claims? I don't personally own one of those devices but I'm genuinely curious as I've deployed a couple of GL.iNet GL-MT6000 with OpenWRT and things work out.

[–] root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Updated with the forum posts

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

This is disappointing. I have one of their travel routers. I guess they still make travel routers that can be flashed with stock openwrt so those are still an option