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