Re: Mozilla VPN: Support Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab approved free GNU/Linux distributions

[bill-auger]

FWIW, there are already several popular VPN clients in the
directory such as openvpn and openconnect - there are also
several private/p2p VPN servers and clients such as
tinc/librevpn, badvpn, n2n, and tailscale - though only tinc is
in the directory

for that reason, i would not expect VPN clients to be
high-priority - several decent ones already exist - but i also
would not expect to to find VPN software to be on that
particular list; because VPNs do not address security - VPNs
address privacy - security and privacy are very different
concerns

i would be surprised if VPN clients were on the high-priority
list - from a libre perspective, they are really SaaSS - they
are essentially offloading your networking to a third-party
service - all such ones that i know of are proprietary; and
there is nothing one with them, which could not be done on ones
own computer - if any VPN software were to be high-priority, it
would be a server, not yet another client for proprietary
services - still, that would fit into the "Decentralization,
federation, and self-hosting" category better than "Security by
and for free software"