Again about status of p2p-software in Fedora.

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
>   
>>  As far as I remember, "P2P is OK while it does not have any points to
>>  the illegal content" (Tom "spot" Callaway (c) , isn't it? :) )
>>
>>  Besides the Torrent, Gnutella is already supported (gtk-gnutella,
>>  gift-gnutella), and so on. Make sure that the rpm package does not
>>  include any illegal stuff and has not any links to questionable and
>>  legal-dangerous servers.
>>     
>
> I thought this was settled as well.  Is edonkey technology any
> different then gnutella? Other than having a far less interesting
> name. Aren't they both designed to do the same sort of distributed
> network? If you can explain the difference between edonkey and
> gnutella, then we'll have a much better idea of if edonkey crosses a
> line that gnutella does not.
>   

IMHO the p2p software was initially pushed into Livna for "paranoid" 
reasons (i.e., "anything questionable" is better to place in Livna). 
Later some p2p have been placed in Fedora Extras, since maintainers have 
understood that the good license and patent-free allow it to be placed 
in Fedora. Some people still not understand this, hence some p2p are 
still in Livna.


~buc
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy