Apollon soon in kde-extragear

[Scott Wheeler]

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On Monday 09 February 2004 13:23, Martin Köbele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after I got a kde-cvs-account, I would be ready to create a subfolder 
> "apollon" in kdeextragear-3 - if there are no further objections.

Honestly I'd like to see more than "passive approval" (i.e. I'm going to do 
this if nobody objects...) for something for which there was no clear 
resolution the last time it was discussed (on kde-policies).

Executive Summary:

Apollon is mostly a Kazaa client, but doesn't include any protocol 
implementations.  I didn't feel comfortable [1] with this being hosted in 
KDE's CVS.  One of the authors gave his responce [2] on why he thinks such an 
application is very important to KDE.  Waldo listed some contexts [3] in 
which he thought p2p is acceptable in KDE, but had some concerns with the 
"spirit" of Apollon.  I think the maintainer of KMLDonkey expanded on and 
made specific some of the issues that Waldo mentioned [4].

I'm still not (personally) comfortable with it being in CVS as the primary 
goal is to facilitate the use of networks that are primarily used for illegal 
activities and there doesn't seem to be (correct me if I'm wrong) an attempt 
to educate the user about the possible legal ramifications of using these to 
download copyrighted material.

- -Scott

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-policies&m=106337412021507&w=2
[2] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-policies&m=106338410602081&w=2
[3] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-policies&m=106340212823535&w=2
[4] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-policies&m=106778043830267&w=2

- -- 
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: laziness, impatience and hubris.
- --Larry Wall
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