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Peercast Source Available

Posted by michael on from the p2p2p2p2p2p2p dept.

jilles writes "Peercast, a p2p streaming program, has had some attention on slashdot recently. Now the source code has been released under GPL. Please find the announcement + source code here."

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  1. The PeerCast FAQ by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Informative

    The PeerCast FAQ is a good introduction to PeerCast.

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  2. Re:Fastrack by Zorikin · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenFT?

    There's already an implementation of the FastTrack protocol, the problem is that the kazaa-and-friends network doesn't allow clients which aren't blessed by the authentication server to connect.

    Gnutella clients have been and still are accumulating the useful features of FastTrack.

  3. Re:...agree to the following condition... by PeerCast · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah sure... how many crackers will adhere to this condition?

    None. Its there to let well meaning hackers know what they should/should not do after they`ve downloaded the source.

  4. Re:Fastrack by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Informative

    If everyone on fastrack switched over to gnutella all would be fine.

    No, that would be HORRIBLE! Gnutella doesn't scale that much.

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  5. Re:Download conditions? by PeerCast · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone else mentioned, the GPL doesn`t give anyone rights to modify our tree, if you don`t like the idea of your code being in the main branch, then fork.

    f) is common sense, if you submit a patch that gets accepted then you can`t really expect us to be able to roll back N versions if you suddenly decide you don`t want it in there anymore.

    BTW peercast.org isn`t a business, we don`t have any legal staff, we`ve got a few programmers working in their spare time.