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drxzcl / lightdht

A lightweight python implementation of the bittorrent DHT
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License? #3

Open ghost opened 11 years ago

ghost commented 11 years ago

Hey, thanks for LightDHT! I was looking for a pure-python Mainline implementation for a project I'm working on, and I've been using LightDHT as the DHT backend during development.

The final project is to be AGPL'd, so I'd love to know what the license is for LightDHT: Do I need to rewrite a new lib from the ground up, or is this OSI/GPL compatible?

PS: My version of LightDHT is by now very different from the clone I made of your repo, if I were being more careful I'd have made more atomic commits and suggested some pulls. :( Suffice to say I did find a few bugs.. the chief one being that if peers are removed from a PrefixRoutingTable bucket and leave it empty, then this can lead to failures later when the empty bucket is used to seek peers and turns up empty. A quick patch to check if the bucket's empty when deleting peers fixes this.

drxzcl commented 11 years ago

Hi there!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy it has been of use to you. Don't worry about the changes. I had a look over your repository, but when I noticed the 2to3 change I knew merging was not going to be easy ;)

LightDHT is licensed under the GPL version 2 (including the "or at your option, any later version" bit). I'm really sorry I forgot to include the COPYING file. I'm usually fairly consistent with that, but it must have slipped my mind on this one. You can use this message as a license statement until I have added COPYING to the repository.

It should be compatible, but let me know if you require different terms for some reason.

Cheers,

drxzcl.

ghost commented 11 years ago

Ah, yes; I only code in Python 3, forgot to mention my repo was bumped 3/4 versions ahead! ;)

That said, I have made more changes than are currently visible in Github, I'll be pushing them back up soon. Many are untested (handlers for other nodes announcing/getting peers, partial changeover from simplified node object to a more OO container, etc..), but fill it out as more of a "peer" than a passive monitor.

Thanks for the license, delighted to hear it's GPL'd with "future" clause. This means I won't have to rewrite Mainline! Very grateful for your work!

Best, Cathal

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 01:11:39 -0700 drxzcl notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi there!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm happy it has been of use to you. Don't worry about the changes. I had a look over your repository, but when I noticed the 2to3 change I knew merging was not going to be easy ;)

LightDHT is licensed under the GPL version 2 (including the "or at your option, any later version" bit). I'm really sorry I forgot to include the COPYING file. I'm usually fairly consistent with that, but it must have slipped my mind on this one. You can use this message as a license statement until I have added COPYING to the repository.

It should be compatible, but let me know if you require different terms for some reason.

Cheers,

drxzcl.

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