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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by seibelj on Thursday July 06, 2017 @11:28PM (#14715803)
Very experienced people have told me to sell my VPN routers[0] on amazon, and I never, ever will. I own the distribution, I own the content, I own the marketing. I'm probably leaving a good chunk of revenue on the table, but overall I think it's the better longterm solution.

[0] https://easyvpnrouter.com/

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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by r1ch on Friday July 07, 2017 @09:46AM (#14718248)
You may want to consider hosting your CSS locally. For whatever reason, the cdnjs CSS took around 4 seconds to load for me, during which time your site was a white page. The rest of the site loaded fine.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by voltagex_ on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:05AM (#14715953)
Offtopic, but it says you use OpenWRT and LEDE so - is there a link to the source somewhere?
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by seibelj on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:21AM (#14716023)
I say it in the FAQ, but it's just vanilla LEDE, and the mobile app uses the JSON-RPC API to communicate. The mobile app isn't open source, but the everything on the device is in UCI, cron, and /etc/openvpn.

The magic isn't in the device, it's in the flashing and configuring it for non-technical people.

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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by voltagex_ on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:36AM (#14716094)
I'm pretty sure you still need to provide source to the version of LEDE you use, at least to your customers.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by seibelj on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:48AM (#14716143)
opkg can give current release and package info.

But I think you are missing the point here - people who are asking the questions you are asking aren't my typical customers. It's some random guy who has never heard the word "linux".

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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:02AM (#14716399)
No the op's point is that to comply with the licence you need to provide the source to customers that ask for it. She's trying to save you some potential trouble.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by ewanm89 on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:24AM (#14716936)
If his customer asks, he doesn't need to do shit if his customer doesn't ask. My recommendation would be do what the likes of Toshiba do for their TVs include in the product an offer with an email address on some hidden copyright page.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by icebraining on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:31AM (#14717841)
That offer is in fact mandatory, if one doesn't want to include the source.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by seibelj on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:37AM (#14718638)
Ah, yes that's all included in documentation sent with the device. I was confused with the question.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by voltagex_ on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:10AM (#14716425)
He. But yeah.

https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech14.html#...

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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by RonanTheGrey on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:09AM (#14716228)
I've been looking for one of these, thank you.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by softwarelimits on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:37AM (#14717165)
Link to source please, thanks.
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Re:I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program by seibelj on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:38AM (#14718645)
https://github.com/lede-project/source
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