Open Source / Licensing

[vgmoose]

A friendly issue to track the open sourcing status of checkra1n for those who are interested!

According to the FAQ, this is planned for sometime in 2020.

[asdfugil]

still deferred?

[vgmoose]

Update! The FAQ now contains the following info:

We will release the full checkra1n source once we have a Windows GUI version. We had hoped to get there in 2020, but we didn't manage to. But PongoOS, the kernel patchfinder and the SEP exploit are already open source on GitHub.

Alongside this tweet:
https://twitter.com/checkra1n/status/1344791240584253440

Thanks!

[kasperk81]

If Windows GUI is really the only thing holding it back for two years, I suggest to release a beta version without GUI support. Community will understand this. Not open sourcing for this reason alone is something very weird. Are there other (real) reasons?

[asdfugil]

the problem is not "GUI", but "Windows"

[kasperk81]

it says once we have a Windows GUI version
read

[asdfugil]

it says once we have a Windows GUI version
read

yeah, then?
windows usb api is really problematic
there's is no issue with the GUI

[kasperk81]

windows support can always come later. right now we have linux binaries and no source code. one thing has nothing to do with the other.. it's a beta software, windows bits can be added after open sourcing.

[soup6020]

Any update on this? It's been literal years.

[aspauldingcode]

Bump: status?