Bug#154312: non-free software in savannah
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Date: 27 Aug 2002 23:23:20 +0200
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> 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 mldonkey@lachesis.inria.fr
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 <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>
> To: Bas Zoetekouw <bas@a-eskwadraat.nl>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, 154312@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: non-free software in savannah
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> Organisation: free as in freedom
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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
>
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