DC++ license change

October 19, 2022 by Leave a comment

A quick but important notice: from version 0.880 (release imminent) and on DC++ will come with General Public License version 3. The license upgrade has been done with the written approval of Jacek Sieka, the original author and copyright holder of DC++.

This change is important for the future maintainability of DC++ since some external data sources and (future versions of) libraries (will) require a compatible license. The change should be equally important to projects using code from DC++ for the same reason.

Filed under DC++, General, Release

About emtee
I started to use DC using DC++ in 2003 when its version number was around 0.260. Since then I've been amazed by the DC network: a professional but still easy-to-use way of P2P file sharing. I was invited to the DC++ team in 2006 where - in the beginning - I had been doing user support and some testing only. A few years later I started to add small contributions to the DC++ code as well so for many years I'd been doing mostly bug fixes, testing, feature proposals and improvements. At the same time I worked on improving the documentation for both DC++ and ADCH++ as well. These days I'm trying to maintain the whole code and the infrastructure behind to keep these software secure and usable for a prolonged time. My ultimate goal is to help making the DC network as more user friendly as possible.

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