Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi

Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by ianal_uanal on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:59AM (#13166161)

Contrary to popular belief, GPL is not free software. You can't add restrictions to something and call it "free as in freedom". A truly "free as in freedom" license is one you can't violate (BSD).

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by lmm on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:04AM (#13166186)

People can and have violated the BSD license, so if you believe that free licenses are only those with no restrictions then the BSD license is not free either. The GPL conforms to all the popular consensus definitions of software freedom (the FSF's free software definition, the OSI's open source definition, and Debian's DFSG); if your concept of "free software" is different from all of those maybe you would communicate more effectively by using a different term.

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by annnnd on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:25AM (#13166951)

Well, he probably meant WTFPL License [0] - it's difficult to violate that one. :)

[0] http://www.wtfpl.net/

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by teddyh on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:03AM (#13166176)

Is a free society one the laws of which you can’t break? No, that’s called anarchy.

A free society can have laws, and a free license can have conditions.

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by ianal_uanal on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:46AM (#13166376)

A free society is one where people don't have restrictions. And guess what GPL has.

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Re:Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi by jdbernard on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:44AM (#13167089)

So in your view of a free society I should be free from restrictions on killing other people?

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