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Projects promoted as FLOSS but which are neither Free Software nor Open Source (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the last years, I have seen plenty of users telling or promoting certain ultra-permissive rules as part of Open Source but which are not even in the definition like the use of read-only licenses, being a good example the MEGA software.

However, I didn't find exact source of these ideas and only believed in the misinformation of certain videos in *tube or similar.

Today, I was looking for a FLOSS VPN client to use at home as I use MATE DE and found Printunl Client promoted as Open Source. Or that was everything until I read the license.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Networkmanager not integrated with MATE ? What about Wicd ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicd Would that be an option ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

I use Wicd by default (sorry for forgotting to mention it) but I didn't see a way to set VPNs there.

In the end I just finished using OpenVPN CLI client. I disabled the SysVInit service and start it manually when I want to have VPN connection.

NetworkManager, in their integrations with GNOME and KDE, has a plugin, for each one, to integrate set up VPNs using also part of OpenVPN main client as backend.