> -----Original Message----- > From: devl-bounces at freenetproject.org > [mailto:devl-bounces at freenetproject.org] On Behalf Of Julien Cornuwel > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:14 PM > To: Discussion of development issues > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Bye folks > > Ed Tomlinson a ?crit : > > On December 27, 2008, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > >> I'm sorry to tell you that for some legal reasons (I live > in France), > >> I have to stop working on Freenet. I've learned a lot with > you guys > >> and I'm sad to have to say goodbye, but that's how it is when you > >> live in a so-called democracy... > > > > Julien, > > > > IF you can be more specific it probably would be of > interest to all of > > us on this list. > > Well, it isn't new stuff but France has a copyright law > (DADVSI) which is vague enough to be used against people who > work on P2P softwares. > > In any case, it is the judge's job to tell if you are guilty > or not, and I might won such a trial. But the judgement can > be very long (up to several years) and, in the meantime, they > have the right to seize your computers and every servers you > rent in France, even if they are not related to the project. > > I didn't care about that until very recently but my situation > is changing and I can't take that risk anymore : servers I > rent are soon to be my only revenue stream. > > More information about DADVSI (in english) : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI
This sucks =( Please consider to continue working on Freenet as an anonymous developer. You can always send patches via FMS (or Freetalk soon). Bye and thanks for your work! PS: Please give the private key of the WoT seed identity to the project leaders. We will create a new one before release anyway but for now it would be nice to have to keypair.
