[svlug] limewire on Linux

[Don Marti]

begin Ivan Sergio Borgonovo quotation of Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:15:16PM +0100:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:55:31 -0700
> Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > A friend of mine wanted to download some stuff 
> > using our Windows machine here and limewire, which 
> > I had heard has some serious virus/spyware issues 
> > on Windows (I don't keep up with Windows stuff, to 
> > be honest, but this is what I've heard), so I was 
> > dubious.
> 
> It looks it is GPLed.
> If[1] it had spyware someone would fork.

That's true, but the particular download that
the Windows user has might be built with spyware.
This is why the Mozilla Corporation is so strict
about the "Firefox" trademark -- so that they can
use trademark law to stop some Windows download site
from redistributing a version with something nasty,
but permissible under the copyright license, built in.

TheOpenCD does something like the QA role of a Linux
distribution, but without the Linux.  Might be worth
checking out for cases like this.
  http://www.theopencd.org/programs

Another good Gnutella client for Linux is
GTK-Gnutella, which is packaged in Debian:
  http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/
  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/gtk-gnutella

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