[Savannah-hackers] non-free software in savannah

[Robert Millan]

Hello,

I have been told that the mldonkey project that is
hosted in savannah contains a file with bytecode
which doesn't have a corresponding source code.

The file contains information of the edonkey protocol
and, for what i can understand, is kept closed to prevent
the creation of modified clients.

It is "donkey/donkey.lam" in the mldonkey directory tree.
proper building of mldonkey requires a patched compiler
that can parse the bytecode in question.

Here is what has been said in the authors mailing
list:

http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/pipermail/mldonkey-users/2002-July/000097.html

I don't know what is your policy in regards to non-free
software in savannah, but i'd like to suggest speaking
with the authors to convince them on switching to a
free project before anything else.

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992