Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > Stanfords [EMAIL PROTECTED] client is not DFSG-free. Stanford won't release > the source, and you need permission if you wish to write for a 3th party > installer and no one is allowed to distribute the software. AFAIK, thats > the reason why there's no [EMAIL PROTECTED] client in Debian. > > There is a Debian package by Nick Lewycky which installs the [EMAIL > PROTECTED] client > on Debian though. > http://wagon.dhs.org/folding/
I don't recall needing permission to write a third party installer, but they did want to look over the man pages I derived from the official documentation. You're right that it will have to go into contrib. [EMAIL PROTECTED] client is a thin wrapper that downloads cores which are built out of BSDish or proprietary-licensed folding dynamics packages. They use signed binaries to maintain integrity. The reason it's not in Debian is because the packages still a little too buggy for Debian-wide distribution. Or at least they aren't feature-rich enough; see bug 261257 for details. Using only one CPU in an SMP box isn't good for a distributed computing client. Besides that, I'm not aware of any reason they couldn't go into Debian contrib, if someone (qd or kfolding packagers?) were interested in sponsoring them. Also, if qd and kfolding are going into Debian, we should make sure that they cooperate with my [EMAIL PROTECTED] client out of the box. Nick Lewycky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
