Hi,

I'm using LimeWire to publish some of my work under a Creative Commons license.

So I go to Library in LimeWire, selects my files and enter additional details whitch is stored in a LimeWire database on my harddrive (I belive). But, when people download my workd; do the licensing and additonal data follow along with the file? Or?

And what about alternateive ways of downloading? I'm using Magnet links on my homepage to distrubute things. In the Magnet links I've included a fallback URL, in case Gnnutella fails to provide sources... But, then: what about license and additional data?

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I tried the magnet for your BBC World Service Radio Player 1.0, and it had some problems (the apache server seemed to stop the download after each chunk) and needed to be resumed three times to complete). When the file was complete, no license showed in the Library column.

The magnets for the wallpapers couldn't find the sources, but the http download worked. I shared the kaleidopcope, but again, no license showed in the Library.

I'm not sure if the license column works for things like .zip and .jpg files yet. Have you tried going on irc.freenode.net #limewire and chatting with zab? He did much of the work on the publishing branch.

Nice idea, btw--hope it works out.

Cheers

Anyhow could anyone please test these Magnet links (it's just desktop wallpapers) for me?

I'd really like feedback on whatever or not LimeWire can download these files.

Note: The Magnet links has a fallback source to my website so LimeWire ought to be able to download them from one or more sources!

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just tried again with LimeWire version 4.10.3 Pro
Java version 1.5.0_05 from Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS X v. 10.4.4 on ppc G4

Wallpaper, Bucky.jpg ? KB Need More Sources

No luck either with the others from yesterday (Wallpaper, I Love Lamp.jpg ? KB Awaiting Sources and Wallpaper, Kaleidoscope Dreams.jpg ? KB Awaiting Sources)

Hi Moldarin

I just noticed a script that might help since part of the description says "it might be useful to the gnutella network to have regular webservers sharing legal files."

http://www.limewire.org/blog/?p=64#more-64

Cheers

I really didn't understand what this one did?

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heh not sure myself--but it looked like some of the LW devs are working on similar projects to yours.

I left a message for them about your thread on irc://chat.freenode.net#limewire

As of now, what I posted is just a part of what I'll need to build a simple Magnet Server Moldarin.

I just intend to have this:
-> MySQL DB that has a table with:
- SHA1 Hash
- Full File Path
- 1 bit saying if its shared or not

-> PHP Script that reads HTTP headers and watches out for Magnet requests coming from Gnutella Clients. Then looks up on the MySQL table for the given hash, if the file is there, serve it or serve the requested byte ranges. If it's sent over 50% of the file, then possibly have another table holding Alternate Locations for the files and last time seen. This way when serving a file, you could send Alt-Loc headers, but I still have to read more on the Gnutella Protocol, I'm LimeWire's Web Dev, and I'm getting more into Gnutella as time goes by.

Hopefully one I'll finish a PHP Host Gnutella crawler I was building and will also release it, or maybe I'll just end up doing it in Python just for the hell of it.

now that I think about it, maybe just a Berkley DB might serve the purpose and it'd make installation easier for people to use the PHP Magnet Server.