OpenWRT One is not FSF RYF compliant

Posted Apr 3, 2025 12:51 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: OpenWRT One is not FSF RYF compliant by gioele
Parent article: Making the OpenWrt One

On the other hand, it's trivial to make the PC Engines APUs FSF RYF compliant - just add read-only media, and put the blobs on that media, then rearrange things so that the firmware can only be loaded from that read-only media (which could be as trivial as a rewritable flash chip with a track cut so that you can't assert write-enable).

At least in the case of the OpenWRT One, it's possible to free it; if I made the changes needed to comply with the FSF's RYF program, it is never possible to replace those blobs, ever - you are tied to non-free firmware forever.