Comment 5 for bug 58917

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Guido Trotter wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> Are there any news about bittorrent's licence? Will it be possible to have the
> new version included in Debian? Otherwise it might just be sensible, even if
> sad, to remove it, rather than continue to ship the old one forever...
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Guido

I have seen some movement on licensing, but I haven't gotten anything
in around a month on it. I am thinking of pinging the author again to
see what is up. I do know that he contacted all the authors and
contributors recently to renounce their copyright on the source in
some movement to control the BitTorrent copyright centrally.

I don't think it is grounds for removal, because the old version works
okay with the exception of a couple bugs. If the license never
changes however I will probably focus on fixing some of those bugs
myself instead of having upstream fix it.

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