Freenet

Freenet is a platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. It is peer-to-peer software which provides a distributed, encrypted, decentralized datastore. Websites and applications providing things like forums and chat are built on top of it.

Fred stands for Freenet REference Daemon.

Building

We've included the Gradle Wrapper as recommended by the Gradle project. If you trust the version we've committed you can build immediately:

POSIX / Windows PowerShell:

$ ./gradlew jar

Windows cmd:

> gradlew jar

We've configured it to verify the checksum of the archive it downloads from https://services.gradle.org.

Testing

To test your version of Freenet, stop your node, replace freenet.jar in your Freenet directory with build/libs/freenet.jar, and start your node again.

To override values set in build.gradle put them into the file gradle.properties in the format variable = value. For instance:

org.gradle.parallel = true
org.gradle.daemon = true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xms256m -Xmx1024m
org.gradle.configureondemand=true

tasks.withType(Test)  {
  maxParallelForks = Runtime.runtime.availableProcessors()
}

Contributing

See our contributor guidelines.

Licensing

Freenet is under the GPL, version 2 or later - see LICENSE.Freenet. We use some code under the Apache license version 2 (mostly apache commons stuff), and some modified BSD code (Mantissa). All of which is compatible with the GPL, although arguably ASL2 is only compatible with GPL3. Some plugins are GPL3.