In message <20021119162118.GA3764 at servalan>, Matthew Toseland 
<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> writes
>Build 620 (now 621) has significant improvements to the distribution
>servlet, a config option not to limit services or FCP (I think this also
>applies to the distservlet, which is by default accessible to the public
>internet, so might be a problem), upgrades Params to use Params rather
>than FieldSets for its sub-Params, uses it everywhere, and contains a
>minor core bugfix (AwaitingInsert had an NPE on cancelling the NoInsert
>- this may have caused some problems :)). There are some issues with the
>DistServlet though, mainly relating to the old oskarcode that writes out
>the JAR on the fly.
>* How to make it work from a compiled tree rather than a JAR. It needs
>  to read freenet.files and freenet-ext.files, which come from the JAR.
>  Theoretically we could use a class with a list of all the files in...
>* Whether we want to have this functionality at all. It makes life
>  easier for some users, but unless we provide a link to the source _for
>  that particular compile_ somewhere in the code, it's a probable GPL
>  violation (Joe gets from fp.org, a release, so could get the source.
>  Mary gets from Joe, Adam gets from Mary... Adam has no easy way to
>  find the source, and if Mary or Joe disappears, is stuffed).
>* Whether we want to always bundle the source in the distribution
>  servlet ZIP, or offer it as a separate bundle but still required. It's
>  one more file to get, it's usually quite big (several megs) - but it
>  would make everything totally clear with respect to the GPL/source
>  availability.
>
>Anyone who comments "or we could just change the license to BSD" will go
>into my .procmailrc with a rule |(cat > /dev/null).

Have you stopped doing snapshots?  The last I can find is 17/11/02, 
build 618.
-- 
Roger Hayter

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