Acquisition (software)

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Acquisition

Developed by	David Watanabe
Stable release	2.169 (build 209)  (2008-06-14) [+/−]
Preview release	unknown  (unknown) [+/−]
OS	Mac OS X
Type	file sharing
License	Shareware (Single User from $25)
Website	http://www.acquisitionx.com/

Acquisition is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. It is based on LimeWire and is a shareware product, priced from $25. Acquisition is noted for being one of the most polished peer-to-peer applications available for Mac OS X, making full use of Apple's Cocoa APIs.^{[citation needed]}

Acquisition's use of the LimeWire core libraries,which are used under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), has caused some controversy.^{[citation needed]} Critics^[who?] argue that the two parts of Acquisition (the GUI and the modified LimeWire core) are not really independent and thereby constitute a single work which cannot be relicensed.^[1] However, since the graphical user interface and the open source, modified LimeWire core are run as separate processes, communicating via Unix pipes, Acquisition's supporters^[who?] argue that this usage is entirely permissible, as the GPL considers piped communication a valid method of separating programs in most cases.^[2] This follows in the footsteps of the precedent set by Apple's proprietary Xcode suite, which relies on open source components such as gcc and gdb.

References

External links

• Acquisition home page
• Acquisition's modified Limewire code, released under the GPL