[Savannah-hackers] Re: address@hidden: mldonkey]

[Mathieu Roy]

GNU General Contact Address <address@hidden> said:

> Greetings to the always-friendly Savannah hackers!
> 
> This message came through address@hidden, and it completely stumps me as
> to what we should be doing about it.  I'm forwarding this to you in
> the hopes you might be able to look into the situation and perhaps
> inform me or directly deal with it.  If that's not the case, let me
> know, and I'll find somebody else to nag and eventually get an answer.
> ;)
> 

I think we should deal with this by ourselves. We accepted this
project, we should handle troubles with them.


1) This is the description submitted while the project has been
   registered.  

"mldonkey is a new client to access the eDonkey network. It is written
in Objective-Caml, and comes with its own GTK GUI, an HTTP interface
and a telnet interface. "

   This license was the GNU GPL. Normally, the source code has been
   reviewed  - license stuff was probably correctly inserted.

2) If I take a look to the repository
   http://sv.gnu.org/cvs/?group=mldonkey in the readme.txt file, there
   is a list of dependancies. Apparently nothing proprietary is
   required.

3) In developers.txt, there's help about installing the software from
   the source. Nothing proprietary seems required. Just the sources.



> > We will not release the protocol, because we don't want to be accused of
> > being the murderers of the eDonkey network. However, since our knowledge of
> > the protocol is only partial, we are interested in any information on it.
> 
> They claim that the sources are available on their site however
> the only source that seems to be available is the unstable cvs 
> source and none of the sources for the stable releases. 

This is right, I do not see any source code in their download area.



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Mathieu Roy
 
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