[Savannah-hackers] Re: Is mldonkey DFSG-Free ?

[Mathieu Roy]

Robert Millan <address@hidden> said:

> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:09:42PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > 
> > mldonkey is not only an edonkey client, but also a client for direct
> > connect, audiogalaxy and openFT. That makes it still useful with the
> > edonkey code removed.
> 
> that makes more sense. perhaps we can convince upstream to distribute
> their non-free bytecode separately and keep mldonkey as a standalone
> program that can use some p2p services (ironicaly, not including edonkey)
> with a separate non-free add-on.
> 
> I guess this way it could stay in savannah. what do Savannah admins
> have to say? (I'm CCing them)


As I previously said, we already contacted mldonkey authors and asked
them to clarify the situation.

At this moment, the main leader of the project agreed to remove the
non-free code from the savannah distribution, continue to distribute
mldonkey free and add pointers to another location for the edonkey
network-specific files.

I added him to To:

Regards,

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Mathieu Roy
 
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