Comment 9 for bug 58917

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Eric Dorland wrote:

> I've just seen someone running the version 4.4 client and I'm lusting
> after it. Any more movement on the license front?
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We've had some small movement in the form of the BitTorrent Open
Source Licence 1.1, but it still isn't enough movement to consider it
free according to the debian-legal people.

The current summary is:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00066.html

I can ping the authors again, but I don't think they'll be that
responsive. It's a pretty big hurdle to them, because they want to be
able to preserve their trademarks, etc.

At this point I'm seriously considering just taking the package to
non-free. It has gone through so many improvements the version in
Debian now is almost a shame.

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