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.

    • @Echedenyan@lemmy.mlOP
      2•3 years ago

      Yes, the VPN to which I want to connect is made with OpenVPN and I know about the CLI client but I wanted to search something with GUI to make it a bit simpler as NetworkManager is not integrated with MATE.

        • @Echedenyan@lemmy.mlOP
          2•3 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.

        • Adda
          3•3 years ago

          I believe you meant Mullvad, right? As far as I know, Mullvad should be a really good open-source VPN.

          • @Echedenyan@lemmy.mlOP
            2•3 years ago

            Are you sure Mullvad is FLOSS? Claimings in https://mullvad.net/en/help/open-source/ don’t suggest it directly.

            If you check their repositories seems that a lot of important part are FLOSS even what seems to be part of the server side and all the client side, but given that they don’t guarantee that and the amount of parts they have as repositories, I can think there is a not-showed part that could be non-FLOSS.

            • Adda
              1•3 years ago

              I myself am not sure, to be honest, but a lot of people here seems to be using Mullvad and from what I have been able to find, everyone on Lemmy recommends it. I wasn’t inspecting their repositories closely, but it could be that some parts are not FLOSS. I don’t know though. According to the positive reviews, I tend to believe what Mullvad says and claims, and even though I agree the claim might be a bit indirect (unintentionally or purposely), it seems they are doing a great job. But I sadly cannot confirm nor refute your claim.

                • Adda
                  2•3 years ago

                  I have never heard of Riseup VPN, but I will take a closer look in the future. Looks definitely interesting though I am somewhat concerned about the lack of information about Riseup VPN on the Internet so far. Seems to be recommended enough, but it will take me some time to be persuaded probably.

                • @Lowey@lemmy.ml
                  1•3 years ago

                  Riseup is good enough to be honest. But I have seen mullvad that it’s in F-droid so pretty sure it’s FOSS. Also most security researcher I follow says it’s best not to use VPN, but if I do to use mullvad cause of the audits and clean history