<a href="http://www.gnutellanews.com/article.html?id=5747">http://www.gnutellanews.com/article.html?id=5747</a><br><br><br>From the <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/">Gnutella Developer Forum</a>:<p><blockquote>GDF,<p>I'm proud to announce that LimeWire has gone open source under the GPL license and <a href="http://www.limewire.org">http://www.limewire.org</a> is open. We may not have worked out all of the kinks in the site but what the heck. There is only one way to find out.<p>As you all know, LimeWire has wanted to provide a quality reference implementation for the proposals that we have been suggesting and implementing. We have also felt that there must be an open implementation underlying the Gnutella protocol for Gnutella to become a fundamental technology of the internet. Academics and all developers should have a baseline core engine and client that they can experiment with and base their work on. What attracted us to Gnutella is that it was an open protocol and free for all to use. We reject closed protocols such as FastTrack/Kazaa/Morpheus.<p>At the same time, we have seen the vitality in the Gnutella community. From developers to users and supporters in general, there is a great deal of interest and energy. However, in the developer community there has not been a great deal of code sharing. There are many of us building duplicate functionality in both open and closed source clients. We hope to bring like-minded developers together at LimeWire.org for the benefit of the whole Gnutella community. It is our intention to move forward at a much faster speed to fulfill Gnutella's potential. We welcome all who wish to help build Gnutella's future. LimeWire looks forward to exploring many potential uses and improvements to a Gnutella based P2P system. We can discuss further specifics on our LimeWire.org mailing lists.<p>I look forward to hearing your feedback.<p>Thanks<br>-greg</blockquote>