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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:06AM (#21434246)
One can draw from this that the GPL is quite toothless. If even the biggest most important GPL'd software in history can't or won't defend itself, then why should anyone care about the GPL?
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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by zamadatix on Sunday November 03, 2019 @12:17PM (#21435139)
Or one can draw that looking at a single violation on a single piece of software is a poor way to come to a conclusion for every violation on every piece of software.

D-Link comes to mind as a similar situation where GPL prevailed. Perhaps in this case nobody cares enough, either way doesn't mean GPL is useless and nobody should care about it.

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Re:Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware by syshum on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:36PM (#21438233)
As with all licenses if the people that hold them do not enforce them than all licenses are Toothless

the Linux Foundation has been notoriously anti-litigation, their corporate masters do not want any litigation at all, and more or less treat Linux as if it was BSD licensed instead of GPL

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