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I've discovered the AllPeers service recently. It looks like a really neat idea - sharing personal files with friends through a Firefox extension.
I went on to install it but was then struck by the License agreement that came up.
AllPeers grants you a non-exclusive license for a non-commercial use of the software and accompanying materials including any documentation in accordance with the scope of grant.
[...]
You may not: [...]
- Translate, modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or create derivative works based upon AllPeers, except to the extent applicable laws prohibit this restriction.
Since this looks very much like a proprietary software license, I can't help but wonder why the Wikipedia article on AllPeers says it's tri-licensed (MPL, GPL, LGPL).
Have I interpreted something wrong? Does this EULA (only shown in a local file during install) cover only a service, or something else?
Thanks for any hint. All the while I'm not clicking the "accept" button, however attractive the concept looks.
Olivier.
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That's strange. I just installed it myself and didn't get any message although it failed to load after I restarted firefox, probably because I'm running a 64bit version of firefox which they say is not supported.
I looked into the allpeers folder in ~/.mozilla and found two license files there under .../allpeers/licenses/ of which one refers to StorageInspector licensed under one of these three licenses (MPL, GPL and LGPL) and other to FreeImage under Freeimage Public License which seems to be a Free Software license.
I didn't see any other license files there so if I didn't know about you getting that EULA I would have thought allpeers is Free Software (trusting wikipedia and these couple of files). Now I just see a confusion.
I guess it'd be good to contact allpeers devs for clarification.
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The request to sign the EULA comes once the extension is installed, when you click on the AllPeers button. The license seems to be located at: chrome://allpeers/content/peer/apRegistration0.xhtml
I just asked for clarification in the AllPeers forum. We shall see.
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We'll have an answer next week but so far it looks encouraging.
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Oh, so EULA might be outdated. That's great to hear.
I'd say it's probably a safe bet that it is Free Software then.
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It's not free as far as I'm concerned until they "shut up and show [us] the source".
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