Hi Maarten, Barry, Bruno and of course Michael,

> Why  is it important to have it open source?

While I have not read this code either, nor contributed
to it, I generally appreciate a possibility to read it.

In that sense, it is a pity that code currently is not
open. I am sure there would be licenses which suit the
interests of the author, the users and people who are
interested in the source code :-)

I wonder how large the differences between the last open
source version and the current version are and what the
reasons for the license change were.

In the past, even the best software has encountered the
situation that maintainers lost time or interest to keep
tending to the software. In such situations, open source
allows others to pick up maintenance, be it for smallish
patches or be it for completely new extended features :-)

Regards, Eric

>> ... Unfortunately the latest version, is no longer open-source :
>> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ For developers
>>
>> (Note: The current version of mTCP is not available as open source yet.
>> If you are interested in working with the mTCP source code the
>> 2013-05-23 version is available to use.)
>>
>> I spoke to Michael on an IRC channel, also I spoke to other people
>> about it, so far only 2 people made a comment about this to Michael.
>> Michael states he had no code contribution for 5 years, some other
>> people claimed that Michael has been asked for support a lot ...



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