The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of applications supporting BitTorrent. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up-to-date.

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BitTorrent Open Source License is not considered free by Debian Free Software Guidelines, see [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/03/msg00181.html] Automatically configure port forwarding (requires UPnP-capable OS & Router with UPnP support) It allows you to use trackerless torrents or (with some clients) to resume normal torrents when their tracker is down Is not compatible with the official BitTorrent DHT support. Tracker included with Linux binaries and with source, but not with Windows binary Recently implemented (unofficial) web seeding feature, see [http://www.bittornado.com/docs/webseed-spec.txt HTTP-Based Seeding Specification] You can select which files to download when using the gui client, but not with the Curses (programming library) (text) client. However, this feature is available in the experimental versions of the curses client. Used to contain both Adware and Spyware, non- Pro version continues to contain Adware. *New note* Latest versions (1.4.3+) of eDonkey ALL contain adware, which can NOT be opted out of, even with a Pro install. Use an older client version or stay away! Provides a Java programming language-based and a simple HTML/JS based WebUI It s not a DHT network, but Shareaza uses gnutella2 to find other Shareaza clients when the tracker is down

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