<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B60 6F7C 39D6 B03C 9024 CD52 365F 7FF7 2DA1 99B9 Date: 27 Aug 2002 23:23:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 111 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --text follows this line-- Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This seems to be a serious problem. Thanks for reporting it. > > Savannah people, can you tell me how to contact the maintainers of > edonkey? Hi Richard. We were already aware of this problem and normally you received a mail from the mldonkey author asking you advices. Maybe it was lost. The better idea is to ask to the main author to describe his problem. I do not really now how to manage this problem in a way that really benefit to the Free Software community. You can contact him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've added him to Cc: > > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: non-free software in savannah > Content-Disposition: inline > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organisation: free as in freedom > Sender: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 > tests=IN_REP_TO > version=2.31 > X-Spam-Level: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Savannah-hackers mailing list > Savannah-hackers@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers -- Mathieu Roy << Profile << http://savannah.gnu.org/users/yeupou << >> Homepage >> http://yeupou.coleumes.org >> << GPG Key << http://gpg.coleumes.org <<
