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it is sketchy windows freeware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader, https://support.jdownloader.org/Knowledgeba

• benibela 6y ago
  I always run it under a separate user account because it looks so sketchy I thought it was sketchy by association. It used to be always recommended by sketchy pirate sites to bypass the download limits on sketchy one-click-hosters
• bigbubba 6y ago
  Huh, I thought it was properly FOSS albeit with a plea for subscriptions, but that's much worse. Evidently my gut instinct was right.
  • mmebane 6y ago
    I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion and I don't see a web interface. I haven't dug through it much, but poking around inside the "trunk" module, I see files with headers that say they're GPLv3. EDIT: Here's a Git mirror of trunk [2]. See, e.g., this file [3]. [1]: https://svn.jdownloader.org/projects/jd https://svn.jdownloader.org/projects/jd [2]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader [3]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader/blob/master/src/jd/gui/UIConstants.java https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader/blob/master/src/jd/gui...
    • funcDropShadow 6y ago
      > I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion What has the license with the chosen version control system to do?
      • mmebane 6y ago
        The emphasis was more on the "no web interface" part. In 2020, I feel like Subversion is significantly less common than git, so having to install SVN + possibly learn SVN commands is a moderate barrier to browsing the code.
        • funcDropShadow 6y ago
          By the way git is an excellent SVN command-line client, though it doesn't help with the learning curve.