On Friday 08 December 2006 06:41, Hoper Edei Deixai wrote: > I was considering switching from Azureus to Ktorrent because of the huge > memory requirements of the former. > > Playing with settings I discovered a strange behaviour in DHT > (http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/DHT): even if enabled it was > always off and after a restart it was disabled again. > So I googled and found this: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=205390 > > I am a bit disappointed because there is no reference to this > "limitation" in documentation nor in openSUSE wiki.
I too saw that, and decided to build from source. This is a silly limitation that is not required either by US Law or prudence. Why not disable FTP and Email. Those are peer to peer just as much a Torrents. Certainly there must be some violation (in spirit if not the letter) of the GPL to deliberately take things OUT of a package there pre-existed in that package. Aren't you supposed to pass on the same rights to the package and source code as you received? Including the right to use DHT? I agree, that there needs to be a single Page of Sins where Novell fesses up to all the limitations they have imposed on GPL code. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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