On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:27:58AM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
Ian,
I am the founder and coordinator of the Freenet Project, a reasonably well known free software project that has been around since 1999.
I heard (on irc) recently that you had to move from the U.S. because of legal problems to do with having developed freenet. Is this true?
Kinda, but not quite, I just discussed it in an interview here: http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/0125236
B.T.W. I admire your work on freenet. One of the most positive things I've seen happen with it lately is that GNU Arch has a backend that allows publication onto freenet. This will allow for distributed development of software that may be questionable in certain countries but is reasonable from a consumer point of view eg: DeCSS.
Yes, that is interesting although I am not yet sure that Freenet's data retention will be good enough for this, but we shall see.
Ian.