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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stay free (libre) software my guys. Deluge.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean I use Deluge anyway, but Qbittorrent is also libre and actually has a more permissive license (so more freedom)

Edit: apparently I looked at the wrong qbittorrent in github. The real one is GPL too so no more free than Deluge.

[–] cyyypher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

qBit and Deluge are both under copyleft GPL, what do you mean with "more permissive"?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As said in my other comment down the chain, I was looking at another repo named Qbittorrent by accident. That one was MIT.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deluge is GPLv3 only. Qbittorrent is a mix of GPLv2 and GPLv3. Personally I'll stick to v3 since it includes specific terms that protect against modern DRM and ways to circumvent GPLv2.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, right, I googled qbittorrent license earlier and accidentally instead read another similarly named project's license, which was MIT. You're right, Qbittorrent isn't really any more free than Deluge.