Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Sun, 11/22/2009 - 14:26

suse novellSponsored by Novell, openSUSE is a free and Open Source operating system, based on Linux.

Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE recently decided to include Transmission as the default BitTorrent client.

However, the addition of Transmission to openSUSE was not straightforward.

Since Transmission comes with DHT support – a technology that helps BitTorrent users to find peers – Novell thought that the application could possibly make openSUSE liable for copyright infringement under German law....

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