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Re: No Wifi Option

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: No Wifi Option
Date 2019-05-05 12:10 +0200
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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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No Wifi Option Terrill Wallace <terrilljwallacejr@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 21:10 +0200
  Re: No Wifi Option Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2019-05-04 21:40 +0200
  Re: No Wifi Option Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-04 21:40 +0200
    Re: No Wifi Option Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-04 22:00 +0200
      Re: No Wifi Option Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-05 01:10 +0200
    Re: No Wifi Option Terrill Wallace <terrilljwallacejr@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 22:00 +0200
      Re: No Wifi Option Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-05-04 22:30 +0200
      Re: No Wifi Option rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-05 17:10 +0200
        Re: No Wifi Option rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-05 17:10 +0200
          Re: No Wifi Option Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-05 17:50 +0200
        Re: No Wifi Option Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-05 17:50 +0200
          Re: No Wifi Option rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-05-05 18:10 +0200
            Re: No Wifi Option Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-05 18:20 +0200
    Re: No Wifi Option Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-04 22:10 +0200
      Re: No Wifi Option Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-04 22:30 +0200
        Re: No Wifi Option Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-05-05 00:40 +0200
        Re: No Wifi Option Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-05 12:10 +0200
          Re: No Wifi Option Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-05-05 12:50 +0200
  Re: No Wifi Option Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-05-04 22:20 +0200

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