So a couple of days ago Nullsoft, makers of WinAMP, quietly released yet another incarnation of P2P software. From News.com’s story on the WASTE drama…
“The features of Waste are similar to those of file-swapping services such as Kazaa and the defunct Napster, but the difference is that only small networks of people (up to 50, according to the Web site) can use it. The software also offers encryption and authentication to prevent non-invitees from accessing the private networks.”
It turns out that AOL has decided to pull the WASTE source from the Nullsoft servers, since they are technically AOL servers due to a lot of complicated reasons like litigation by the RIAA or the MPAA. Whatever reasons they have is their problem but I don’t think WASTE should disappear because like Gnutella was the next step beyond Napster I feel WASTE is the next step beyond Gnutella.
I haven’t read into the full licensing details but from what I understand WASTE was released under the GNU/GPL so I do my part to propagate the revolution…
Waste Source (zip, win32 binary)
Posted by Mr. Keyur at May 31, 2003 10:15 AM | TrackBackAOL is saying it was an unauthorized release, and thus really isn’t under the GPL, since whoever released it doesn’t own the copyright to it. So if it’s not GPL, then you can’t have it on your site. (and G and I need to uninstall it).
I wonder if AOL will follow this up and challenge the people who are going to continue work on it. Plenty to read in the related /. thread.
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Posted by: Ram at May 31, 2003 12:41 PMHay i am on a small network and am wondering if u know of others if u do can u send me an email on it.
Posted by: hidraca at August 18, 2003 09:31 PM