Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc

[Jérôme Marant]

MLdonkey <address@hidden> writes:

>>    I still don't know what the patch is for ;-)
>
> The patch is used to read the offuscated code containing the eDonkey
> protocol specification (three small modules) . It's not nice, there
> have been a lot of discussions about that, but I still think it is the
> only way to avoid leechers from breaking the eDonkey network. I'm for
> full open-source programs, but the eDonkey protocol is not designed to
> be open-source. I will not break this beautiful network just for
> ideological reasons (wars between open-source and closed-source
> protocols are useless, the real problem is with cryptographic
> protocols that can't be reverse-engeneered)

Thanks.

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Jérôme Marant

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