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[Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing |
Date: |
27 Aug 2002 23:36:20 +0200 |
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MLdonkey <address@hidden> said:
> > If you are the sole copyright holder, it would be allowed. I don't
> > think those two files would really be Free Software, because users would
> > not really have the right to modify them. But that's not a official FSF
> > position (I don't really want to start a week-long process to figure out
> > the official position) IMO, Savannah should not distribute these files.
>
> I will remove the file donkey.lam from the CVS today. I will modify
> the configure script to ask and download this file from another
> location if the user wants edonkey support. Binary distributions will
> be available only from another location, too. This way, only the free
> part of mldonkey stays at Savannah, is it OK ?
It would be fine for me. The better solution would a completely Free
mldonkey be I try to understand the technical reasons behind this
choice.
But I need acknolegment of Loic Dachary, since he is the one who lead
Savannah. One could say I refers too many time on him but I really
mean the fact that I cannot impose my personals choices on savannah.
> > But as a practical matter, obfuscation won't stop script kiddis
> > from screwing things up. It will only stop good people from
> > improving it. IIRC, Gnutella had people setting huge TTLs and
> > returning bogus results before the source was released.
>
> Yes, of course. But it will at least prevent the majority of users
> from just modifying two variables in the sources just for their client
> to connect to all servers instead of 5. Moreover, mldonkey is only a
> client, I can't fix the problems which are in the servers or in the
> protocol.
>
> - MLDonkey
Regards,
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Mathieu Roy
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- [Savannah-hackers] mldonkey licensing, Mathieu Roy, 2002/08/18
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, MLdonkey, 2002/08/21
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, Mathieu Roy, 2002/08/21
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, Free Software Foundation, 2002/08/23
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, MLdonkey, 2002/08/23
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, Free Software Foundation, 2002/08/26
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, MLdonkey, 2002/08/27
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing,
Mathieu Roy <=
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, Loic Dachary, 2002/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, MLdonkey, 2002/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: mldonkey licensing, Mathieu Roy, 2002/08/23