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.

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

$ ./gradlew jar

> gradlew jar

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

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()
}

See our contributor guidelines.

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.