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It's good that development is on-going, but it's a bit saddening that the official client is closed-source and single-platform (if I am not mistaken! Haven't se
by einpoklum 6y ago
It's good that development is on-going, but it's a bit saddening that the official client is closed-source and single-platform (if I am not mistaken! Haven't seen an indication to the contrary on the site).
I think the platform would fare better, and would decline less, if the software were developed more openly.
Note that there is a FOSS client for Linux (and maybe other operating systems): aMule.
https://github.com/amule-project/amule/ https://github.com/amule-project/amule/
And while it seems some development (last commit was 8 days ago), it has not seen a proper release for 4 years.
- netol 6y agoeMule is GPL, any closed source fork is likely illegal, even if it's the official client. Apparently, the source code of this release can be found at https://github.com/irwir/eMule/tree/v0.60a https://github.com/irwir/eMule/tree/v0.60a aMule was created as a cross-platform port of eMule as far as I can recall.
- einpoklum 6y agoUmm, the link you gave is for something released in 2016; and not worked on since.
- alanfranz 6y ago> the official client is closed-source and single-platform It's not clear what you're talking about... eDonkey2000 ? I don't know if such software is still used nowadays. Emule is Windows only, but it's open source, you can find the links on their official page and on sourceforge.
- wan23 6y agoeDonkey2000 has been dead for a decade and a half now - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-13-fi-donkey13-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-13-fi-donke...