“This year, alongside the usual LimeWire search results, we’ll begin integrating links to extended content in LimeSpot, LimeWire Store and, eventually, across the web.” George Searle, LimeWire CEO, writes in his blog, “Soon, within LimeWire, you’ll be able to connect with participating artists, and drill down or sideways to see photos, find tour dates, watch music videos, find lyrics and buy music, tickets and merchandise.”

Last year, ZeroPaid reported on LimeWire developing a LimeWire store. Two years ago, ZeroPaid also reported on LimeWire integrating BitTorrent.

The LimeSpot website says that users can, “Be a blogger, whip up a wiki, foster a forum — or all of the above.”

Tiziano Mengotti and Rene Tegel are the lead developers on the GPU project. Mengotti is the driving force behind the license “patch,” which says “the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed.”

Mengotti says the clause is specifically intended to prevent military use. “We are software developers who dedicate part of our free time to open source development. The fact is that open source is used by the military industry. Open source operating systems can steer warplanes and rockets. [This] patch should make clear to users of the software that this is definitely not allowed by the licenser.”

He says some might think an attempt to prevent military use might be “too idealistic” and would not work in practice, but he references the world of ham radio, whose rules specify that the technology is not to be used commercially. “Surprisingly enough, this rule is respected by almost every ham operator.”

There’s also mention that the bundled Symtella peer-to-peer file sharing software might not be included after all. The Gnutella-based P2P software would have allowed Nokia N91 owners to share files via the phone’s built-in Wi-Fi, but now Nokia’s spokesperson is said to be “talking guardedly about sharing N91 playlists by Bluetooth or MMS.”