Shareaza goes open source
p2pnet.net News:- The Shareaza Windows p2p application boasts it’s no-strings-attached "in a world where many competing applications display banner ads, beg for money or offer ‘paid versions’, or worse yet dump a load of unwanted stuff on your PC".
Now it’s gone a step further, releasing Shareaza 2.0 under the GNU General Public License.
Developing Shareaza as a closed source product "has been a lot of fun – it made some important technical improvements, broke some new ground with an original P2P network, ‘upped the ante’ with many of its competitors and probably contributed to the growing trend away from ‘heavy spyware bundling’," say the developers here.
The Shareaza 2.0 codebase is currently available for immediate download, as is the source code. But its final home will probably be at SourceForge.net.
And, "for those who aren’t interested in the whole open source thing, there are also some cool new features and important performance improvements", ie:
A new, very comprehensive ‘remote web access’ feature allows full remote control of Shareaza’s searches, downloads, uploads and networks from any web browser.
Helpful new ‘firewalled’ warning message and link to router configuration tips
Performance improvements on all supported networks
Some sleek new ‘2.0′ graphics.
