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<h3>Regarding Gnutella</h3> |
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"Gnutella" is, at present, the name for a protocol for distributed |
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file sharing, mostly used for music files. The name also sometimes |
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refers to the network itself, as well as the original Gnutella software. |
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The situation is quite confusing. For more on Gnutella's |
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origin and history, please refer to the <a |
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the subject.</p> |
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In any case, the name was originally a word play on "GNU" (the original |
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developers planned to release their code under the GNU GPL, and may have |
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had in mind contributing it to the GNU project) and "Nutella" (a candy |
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bar that the original developers enjoyed). However, neither the |
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original software nor any of the related current projects are <a |
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href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">official GNU |
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packages</a>. We have asked that the Gnutella developers change the |
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name to avoid confusion; perhaps that will happen in the future.</p> |
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There are a number of free software programs that implement the |
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Gnutella protocol, such as <a |
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href="http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/">gtk-gnutella</a>, <a |
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href="http://mutella.sourceforge.net/">mutella</a>, and <a |
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href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucleus/">gnucleus</a>. Please |
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note, however, that none of these programs are officially <a |
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href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">GNU software</a> |
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either. GNU has its own peer-to-peer networking program, <a |
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href="http://www.gnu.org/software/GNUnet/">GNUnet</a>, whose |
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documentation includes a <a |
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protocols</a>.</p> |
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The Free Software Foundation is concerned with the freedom to copy and |
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change software; music is outside our scope. But there is a partial |
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similarity in the ethical issues of copying software and copying |
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recordings of music. Some articles in the |
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<a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#Laws">philosophy</a> directory |
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relate to the issue of copying for things other than software. Some |
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of the <a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#ThirdPartyIdeas">other people's |
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articles</a> we have links to are also relevant.</p> |
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No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge |
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people to reject the assumption that some person or company has a |
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natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public |
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can use it. Even the US legal system nominally |
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anti-social idea.</p> |
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