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Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc
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Goswin Brederlow |
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Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc |
Date: |
28 Jul 2002 10:23:12 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Jérôme Marant) writes:
> Goswin Brederlow <address@hidden> writes:
> > 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.
Firstly there is the source problem: No source, no go. So the edonkey
protocol has to go to non-free (in its current form).
> 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.
If the mldonkeys edonkey author(s) decides to release his source that
would be a concern, but a very small one.
Just look at samba or wine for example. They are in main too. I don't
see a problem there.
MfG
Goswin
PS: I want a mldonkey.deb. Please just do one and then we can file
bugs against it and fix issuses like the compiler patch. :)
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, (continued)
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, Goswin Brederlow, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, MLdonkey, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, Goswin Brederlow, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, Jérôme Marant, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, MLdonkey, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, MLdonkey, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc, Jérôme Marant, 2002/07/27
- Re: [Mldonkey-users] OCaml patch / Debian packages / etc,
Goswin Brederlow <=