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<title>Regarding Gnutella |
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- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> |
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<h2>Regarding Gnutella</h2> |
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<p> |
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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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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella">Wikipedia article</a> on |
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the subject.</p> |
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In any case, the name was originally a word play on “GNU” |
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(the original developers planned to release their code under the GNU |
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GPL, and may have had in mind contributing it to the GNU project) and |
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“Nutella” (a candy bar that the original developers |
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enjoyed). However, neither the original software nor any of the |
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related current projects |
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are <a 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/en/">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="/software/gnunet/">GNUnet</a>, whose |
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documentation includes a <a |
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href="https://gnunet.org/compare">comparison of the |
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protocols</a>.</p> |
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<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/third-party-ideas.html">other |
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people's articles</a> we have links to are also relevant.</p> |
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<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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<a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">rejects</a> that |
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anti-social idea.</p> |
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<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a |
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href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a |
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href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and other |
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corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a |
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