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+<title>Regarding Gnutella
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Regarding Gnutella</h2>
+
+<p>
+&ldquo;Gnutella&rdquo; is, at present, the name for a protocol for distributed
+file sharing, mostly used for music files. The name also sometimes
+refers to the network itself, as well as the original Gnutella software.
+The situation is quite confusing. For more on Gnutella's
+origin and history, please refer to the <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella">Wikipedia article</a> on
+the subject.</p>
+
+<p>
+In any case, the name was originally a word play on &ldquo;GNU&rdquo;
+(the original developers planned to release their code under the GNU
+GPL, and may have had in mind contributing it to the GNU project) and
+&ldquo;Nutella&rdquo; (a candy bar that the original developers
+enjoyed). However, neither the original software nor any of the
+related current projects
+are <a href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">official GNU
+packages</a>. We have asked that the Gnutella developers change the
+name to avoid confusion; perhaps that will happen in the future.</p>
+
+<p>
+There are a number of free software programs that implement the
+Gnutella protocol, such as <a
+href="http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/en/">Gtk-Gnutella</a>, <a
+href="http://mutella.sourceforge.net/">Mutella</a>, and <a
+href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucleus/">Gnucleus</a>. Please
+note, however, that none of these programs are officially <a
+href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">GNU software</a>
+either. GNU has its own peer-to-peer networking program, <a
+href="/software/gnunet/">GNUnet</a>, whose
+documentation includes a <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180616130316/https://gnunet.org/compare">
+comparison of the protocols</a>.</p>
+
+<p>
+The Free Software Foundation is concerned with the freedom to copy and
+change software; music is outside our scope. But there is a partial
+similarity in the ethical issues of copying software and copying
+recordings of music. Some articles in the
+<a href="/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#Laws">philosophy</a> directory
+relate to the issue of copying for things other than software. Some
+of the <a href="/philosophy/third-party-ideas.html">other
+people's articles</a> we have links to are also relevant.</p>
+
+<p>
+No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge
+people to reject the assumption that some person or company has a
+natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public
+can use it. Even the US legal system nominally
+<a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">rejects</a> that
+anti-social idea.</p>
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+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to <a
+href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org">&lt;gnu@gnu.org&gt;</a>. There are also <a
+href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and other
+corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a
+href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
+
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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+$Date: 2019/03/09 16:56:26 $
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