Open Source Licenses

Written offer for source code

The WhiteCat Family Router firmware contains software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). We will provide the complete corresponding source code for any GPL- or LGPL-licensed component in our firmware on request, for at least three (3) years after distribution of the product. Source requests may be sent to:

[email protected]

Plain-language summary

This product uses free and open-source software. You have the right to receive the source code, modify it, and redistribute it under the terms of the relevant licenses. We do not restrict that right. We do not claim ownership over the open-source components β€” we ship them as part of the product because they make it work.

Components shipped in firmware

The following list covers the major OSS components. A full Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is available on request.

  • OpenWrt β€” base Linux distribution. License: GPL-2.0. openwrt.org
  • Linux kernel β€” License: GPL-2.0.
  • BusyBox β€” Userland utilities. License: GPL-2.0.
  • Knot Resolver β€” Caching DNS resolver, content filtering. License: GPL-3.0. knot-resolver.cz
  • Lua β€” Embedded scripting. License: MIT.
  • lsqlite3 β€” SQLite Lua binding. License: MIT.
  • SQLite β€” Embedded database. License: Public Domain.
  • iptables / nftables β€” Packet filtering. License: GPL-2.0.
  • dnsmasq β€” DHCP/DNS forwarder. License: GPL-2.0.
  • wireguard-tools β€” VPN tunneling. License: GPL-2.0.

Source archive

A source archive matching each shipped firmware build will be hosted at:

https://whitecatfamily.com/assets/opensource/wcfr-ax3000-firmware-source-{version}.tar.xz

Until the first shipped build is finalised, archives may be requested by email as described above.