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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by ianal_uanal on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:45AM (#13166103)
Well, both Copyright Holders and GPL Licensors want to enforce their license. But guess what. Piracy is a coin with two sides.. Thousands (millions?) of companies around the world use illegally obtained copies of software to make money. A dozen companies also violate the GPL. I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..
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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by lmm on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:05AM (#13166190)
> I don't understand what makes GPL so special and why it should be protected more than (C)..

Some people care less about whether the law has been violated and more about whether the source code has been made available.

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by quickben on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:02AM (#13166172)
Well, philosophically, does anybody builds nowdays using the win XP source code to make profit? How about the Linux kernel?

I'd argue one of these has an approach that actively benefits humanity and the other one is a footnote in history.

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