Paul Winkler <pw_lists(a)slinkp.com> writes:
eDonkey does not appear to be open source software.
Not sure about
the file format.
The protocol that the donkey network uses is not a free protocol.
There are free software clients for the donkey network. Check out
mldonkey,
http://mldonkey.berlios.net
Information on the protocol is scarce, but successfully reverse
engineered, so it's not a protocol developed by the free software
community, such as openft,
http://gift.sf.net and gnunet,
http://gnunet.org
I would mention freenet aswell, but it's only implementation is java
based and I haven't looked too much on it.
I would refrain from using this protocol to distribute free software.
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