Re: [GNUnet-developers] RE: gnunet_java_gui-1.00.tar.gz

[Brett Wooldridge]

Jan Marco Alkema wrote:

> > Why do you need a decompiler? Where are the sources?
> >    
>
> Java can be easy decompiled to sources. CMG has done it in a way that all
> the sources come back. If they had done it on the hard way they translated
> variables to no-meaning information. For example Row_Counter to a00323339.
>  
>
> > What is the license of Cdfoon?
> >    
>
> I don’t think CMG is happy I (we) use the source code of them. If you do a
> lot of improvement rounds on the code it will not look on the initial source
> code of CMG.
>
> Note: CMG has used a zip/upzip routine for the data of a German developer
> without letting hem known. I mine opinion "everyone excepts ..." uses code
> from someone else.
>  
Jan et al, this is *definitely* a "bad idea". One should *never* *ever* 
use code without permission
(it's stealing). I don't care how easy it would be to create a GNUnet 
client based on cdfoon's code,
writing a Java GUI from scratch is such a *trivial* task that doing so 
is the obvious way to go.

While I can't claim to speak for the GNUnet project, or maybe I can in 
as much as it's Open Source,
I am requesting that you stop work on reverse-engineering CMG's code and 
focus your efforts on
either 1) creating a Java UI from scratch, or 2) creating a good JNI 
glue layer between GNUnet and
Java such that writing such a client in the future will be made simpler.

Thanks,
brett