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Re: No Wifi Option



On 2019-05-04, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:

>> Are there legal implications with a user installing non-free software
>> as long as they follow the conditions?
>
> I am not a lawyer - please have your own lawyer consult you regarding
> the licensing terms involved - i.e. possibly some of these:
> https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/
>

Implying that a Debian user, in downloading a binary blob from Debian's
non-free repositories in order to get his wifi up and running, might in
doing so somehow fall foul of the law is FUD.

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to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful
language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with
the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was 
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