Editing MLDonkey (section)

== History ==
Development of the software began in late 2001. The original developer of MLDonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from [[Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique|INRIA]]. It was originally conceived as an effort to spread the use of OCaml in the open source community.<ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00071789/en/|title=Fabrice Le Fessant; MLdonkey, a Multi-Network Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Program|year=2003|publisher=INRIA|type=report|last1=Fessant|first1=Fabrice Le|last2=Patarin|first2=Simon}}</ref>

In January 2003, [[Slyck.com]] reported brief friction between MLDonkey developers and the official [[Overnet]] MetaMachine developers, which denounced MLDonkey as a "rogue client", allegedly for incorrect behavior on the network.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mennecke|first=Thomas|url=http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=34|title=Rogue Clients and Overnet|date=January 17, 2003|access-date=January 9, 2010|archive-date=May 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528105535/http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=34|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Versions before 3.0 have a known security vulnerability that allows an attacker with access to the web interface to read any file on the file system.<ref>{{cite web|last=Walker-Morgan|first=DJ|url=http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/MLDonkey-3-0-closes-security-hole-740577.html|title=MLDonkey 3.0 closes security hole|publisher=[[Heinz Heise|H-online]]|date=16 March 2009}}</ref>