FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from hundreds of Open Source and freelance developers from around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire's open source community announced the start of a new project fork "FrostWire" that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market. FrostWire has evolved to replace LimeWire's BitTorrent core for that of Vuze, the Azureus BitTorrent Engine.
To be the best Free Open Source and Multinetwork P2P filesharing client that proves the many legitimate uses of filesharing technologies by supporting all the content creators willing to distribute their works for free under Creative Commons (or similar licensing models) to the BitTorrent and Gnutella networks.