About The Circle

The Circle is free software, released under the GNU GPL. This means you are free to alter it and distribute it to your friends without my or anyone else's permission, so long as you also make the source code available to them. However, I ask you not to alter the underlying network code unless you really know what you are doing, as a faulty peer could harm the Circle network.

Contributors

Paul Harrison

• Network code
• Chat
• Gossip
• File searching
• (He's the Linus of the project. --njh)

Nathan Hurst

• MP3/ogg and image player windows
• Hyperbolic geometry in the circle diagram
• Many hours of brainstorming and collaboration and support
• Doco and interactive helpdesk.

Peter Moulder

• See [ryan] entries in README.
• CVS work.
• Initial support for bandwidth profiling.

Jiri Baum

• Chat channels
• i18n work (not yet all in CVS at time of writing)
• At least one one-line fix.

Thomas Mangin

• Refactoring, code readability
• file type detection
• working on using it for searches.

Ricardo Niederberger Cabral

• Prototype version of the current upload/download window.

Glen McGrath

• Idea of apt methods (this was further developed by Nathan and Peter, and implemented by Paul).

Andrew Bulhack

• Extracting ID3 tags from OGGs.

Thomas Voegtlin

• Circle statistics
• Interface to eDonkey, Overnet
• Chat improvements
• Download manager improvements
• Start at whiteboard implementation.

Daryl Moulder

• Work on pygtk for MacOS X.

The Circle also includes some code originally from the amkCrypto library.