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Some of the features in your screenshots look interesting, but why is Cove closed source?
by mgdigital 3y ago
Some of the features in your screenshots look interesting, but why is Cove closed source?
- anacrolix 3y agoMainly because I am not ready to share my DHT indexing implementation. It's the culmination of years of working with BitTorrent and DHTs and I'd like to get something back for it one day. However I do dogfood Cove and want people to have that experience too.
- pdimitar 3y agoI would think the only thing you would get out of such work is a sternly worded cease and desist from a big entity so you might as well open-source this and let somebody else take the torch in case you are shut down. I mean I'd use such software (and huge DBs like that of Skytorrentz) for research purposes because to me distribution is hugely interesting as a hobby but many courts won't see it that way, and we know a lot of them are influenced by copyrights holders.
- anacrolix 3y agoThanks for your insight!