Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[andrew]

Libreboinc seems to have stalled.  And packages descendent from the boinc  
soucre package will shortly be dropped from the repos.  See [#5658]

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[gnuser]

I think that restriction is acceptable. You can run the software for any  
purpose but it is not OK to run it in a stolen computer, correct? So that  
would be OK for the 4 freedoms I think.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[nicolasmaia]

So, did this go anywhere?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

The sourcecode for the Boincserver could be a problem:  
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/tree/master/rboinc/server. Read the files  
called *default. The Client isn´t that hard.
Some one should upload a projectlist so that I could just change from where  
Boinc loads.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

It seems, that Boinc is downloading the list from the Boinc-server. We(better  
FSF) should set up a own projectlist, so that I/we just have to change the  
location from where it loads the list.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

Maybe I should just make it a patch, the differences seems rather static and  
so I wouldn´t need to keep it up to date.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[jabjabs]

That is a brilliant idea! Shame I cannot help out in terms of the technology,  
but the idea is a great start.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

Sorry it should be PS3Grid. For some reason there is a licensefile of  
PS3Grid, maybe an error.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

Here is the LibreBoinc repository https://gitorious.org/libreboinc.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

I found 3 interesting things in the licenses.

1. Most is licensed under LGPL.

2. It has a restriction but maybe it isn´t a problem:

Restrictions

You may use this software on a computer system only if you own the system or  
have the permission of the owner.


3. PS2Grids license is non free. Maybe some one has to help me there, if I  
miss a file.


Momentary I use the materbranch on the latest code.
I will uplad the code to Gitorious. In a rather unmodified state.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[mail]

I'm pretty sure that restriction disqualifies it as free software.
Freedom 0- to run the program for any purpose. That's restricting freedom 1,  
isn't it?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[legimet . calc]

 2. It has a restriction but maybe it isn´t a problem:

 Restrictions

 You may use this software on a computer system only if you own the system  
or have the permission of the owner.


That's just a warning and not part of the license, so it isn't a problem. The  
license is LGPL.


 3. PS2Grids license is non free. Maybe some one has to help me there, if I  
miss a file.


What is PS2Grids? I grep'd the source code and couldn't find anything.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

Are any of these licenses nonfree?

// wxWidgets Library Licence, Version 3.1
// http://www.wxwidgets.org/
// Source: http://www.wxwidgets.org/
// Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling et al
//
//
// cURL  libCURL
// http://curl.haxx.se/
// Source: http://curl.haxx.se/
// Copyright (c) 1996 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, .
//
//
// OpenSSL  SSLeay
// http://www.openssl.org/
// Source: http://www.openssl.org/
// Copyright (c) 1998-2012 The OpenSSL Project.  All rights reserved.
// Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (e...@cryptsoft.com)
//
//
// zLib Commpression Library
// http://www.zlib.org
// Source: http://www.zlib.org
// Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
//
//
// International Components for Unicode
// http://www.icu-project.org/
// Source: http://www.icu-project.org/
// Copyright © 1995-2012 International Business Machines Corporation and  
others. All Rights Reserved.

//
//
// Liberation Fonts
// https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
// Source: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/
// Digitized data copyright (c) 2010 Google Corporation
//  with Reserved Font Arimo, Tinos and Cousine.
// Copyright (c) 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
//  with Reserved Font Name Liberation.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

I think I could just delete this paragraph.
Maybe they had added this restriction, because the chefs were getting angry  
about the power consumption.

[Trisquel-users] Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects

[zwiebel444]

I plan a totally free Boinc, which only has free projects in the projectlist.  
I have 2 problems:


1. I don´t know where to find the list in the code.
2. I don´t know which project are free.

To be honest I´m rather bad i programming, but it is on the issueslist, so  
why don´t make a fork.