Comment 20 for bug 58917

At this stage I'm about ready to move it to non-free, as it is almost
laughable how old the bittorrent client in debian is right now. I
have pinged the developers multiple times since their latest license
revision and got no response at all, unfortunately. I attempt to fix
bugs myself but some of them are just a bit hard to crack.

I'll probably give it a month or two (busy time for me atm) and then
initiate a new package bittorrent-5 (or bittorrent-nonfree) in
non-free that is derived from the newest branch. The BitTorrent Open
Source License v1.1 [1] is at least free enough to go into non-free
according to my last thread on debian-devel [2].

1. http://www.bittorrent.com/license
2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00042.html

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Michael Janssen --- Jamuraa --- <email address hidden> --- <email address hidden>

On 2/12/07, Andrew Ash <email address hidden> wrote:
> Has there been any update to the licensing issues with Bittorrent?
>
> This bug has also been reported to Ubuntu's bugtracker at
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/58917
>
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