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[Savannah-hackers] Re: non-free software in savannah
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Richard Stallman |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: non-free software in savannah |
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Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:05:48 -0600 (MDT) |
This seems to be a serious problem. Thanks for reporting it.
Savannah people, can you tell me how to contact the maintainers of
edonkey?
> and, for what i can understand, is kept closed to prevent
> the creation of modified clients.
We don't use the term "closed" because that is clearly the opposite
to "open source", a term that we don't want to encourage either.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.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.
Definitely we will try to persuade them to do the right thing rather
than chase them away.
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:17:21 +0200
From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: non-free software in savannah
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:48:58PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
>
> Please do, and cc RMS, citing [1].
okay, this is a notification for RMS and RFP #154312
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:00:50PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> 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
>
--
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