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

[Jérôme Marant]

Goswin Brederlow <address@hidden> writes:

> Adding the patch to ocaml so that it builds a ocaml-patched.deb or
> smething that contains the patched binaries and depends on the normal
> ocaml.deb should be easy to do. Getting the patch into mainstream
> should be the goal for the future.

  Yes, that would need a dedicated ocaml deb with the patch applied.

> Also if autobuilding fails there are usually enough volunters to build
> or the package is not realy used.
>
> Apart from that, since the donkey protocol is not DFSG free anyway,
> mldonkey should come in two flavours. One without donkey support in
> main and one with in non-free. Only the later one would need the
> patched compiler.

  DFSG are about software, not about protocols or algorithms. The
  EDonkey support in mldonkey is free software so it has nothing
  to do with non-free.
  The main question is about whether anyone has the right to
  reverse-engineer edonkey and to write software for that
  analysis. The software would then go to non-us or even no go
  anywhere if it does include edonkey support.

Cheers, 

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Jérôme Marant

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