To gnucleus authors/helpers

you know the story today, that scumware thing.

IMHO, you should protest this action openly. This is the worst sad thing I have ever seen in my net life.

Greetings and thanks for making this excellent code free,open.

Ilgaz from Turkey

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Slashdot Article About newest Morpheus "feature"

I see no way that swabby can do something against this!

Gnucleus is under GPL, so everybody can use the code and add these tools!

Morgwen

block them

an open letter, nothing more. I know GPL real good... yeap, nothing can be done...

well you could write a copy of Morpheus that doesn't include the spyware... in fact it might be arguable that the spyware code itself has to be open-sourced because it is distributed with a GPL application...

And then there's the third option, packet-sniffing to figure out what server the spyware app uses and flooding it until they beg for mercy.

From what I know of the GPL, Morpheus is still in full compliance because the GPL only covers components of a program that are statically linked. The spyware is dynamically linked to a seperate DLL and isn't physically part of Morpheus so it might not fall under the same license because the spyware itself is not a derivative work of any other GPL'ed software.

However, I will admit that my interpretation of the GPL may be incorrect.

well, everybody is free in choosing his gnutella client...so what?
but i think most people are not informed about all the spyware and things
this should be dont....but i really dont know how....

"this should be done"


......sorry :-)