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Shareaza 2.0 Released Under GPL

Posted by timothy on from the runs-under-whatnow? dept.

RageEar writes "Today it was announced that the latest version of Shareaza, a popular P2P application for Windows, was released under the GPL. Currently the source code is hosted by the Shareaza servers, but the announcement makes mention of the code becoming a project on Sourceforge. The binaries are still available for Windows only, but I imagine it is only a matter of time before a Linux port emerges."

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  1. Re:anybody compiled it yet by Izago909 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last time I checked in it was built on .NET. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, but if it is, some serious revisions must be made before it's truly cross platform.

  2. Re:Better? by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't get busted for downloads, you get busted for uploads. The program has an option to turn off all uploads (even of partial files.)

    Very useful for me, as in the last year I recieved two "friendly letters" from the BSA and MPAA respectively.

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  3. Re:Shareaza 2.0: Open Source by athakur999 · · Score: 5, Informative

    A quick look at gtk-gnutella's page shows that it only supports Gnutella. Shareaza supports EDonkey, BitTorrent, and it's own Gnutella2 as well, and can swarm your download across all four networks.

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  4. Re:MLDonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not true, mldonkey is done in Ocaml.

  5. Re:anybody compiled it yet by Nahor · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it's not built on .NET, it's regular C++. It was programmed using Visual Studio .NET and uses MFC for the GUI.