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portalman
Tutor
Sep 17, 2026

Stop deleting critical files

Netgear, you are a massive corporation.  please stop taking down software repositories without warning.  for expert users, you’ve rendered some approaches and  features useless on the ReadyNAS ...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 17, 2026
portalman wrote:

for expert users, you’ve rendered some approaches and  features useless on the ReadyNAS line by taking linux repos offline, and by ceasing to host GPL source images. 

I agree that they should have left them up.  FWIW, my understanding was the GPL needed to be hosted as long as the firmware download for that release was hosted.  But I could be wrong about that.

 

Wayback has gpl source for 6.10.5 (nothing later)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20221021210304/https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GPL/ReadyNASOS_WW_src_V6.10.5.zip

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