FOSS Distributed Computing active project
Hi everyone.
Does anyone know if there's a still active (which means that is currently distributing projects) distributed computing project? For those of who don't know what that is, think about Seti@Home or Folding@Home.
For instance, Seti@Home was FOSS but it's not active anymore.
Folding@Home is proprietary.
Thanks for your help.
Hello, Vanack. How about this list?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
On 8/19/21, name at domain <name at domain> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a still active (which means that is currently
> distributing projects) distributed computing project? For those of who don't
>
> know what that is, think about Seti@Home or Folding@Home.
>
> For instance, Seti@Home was FOSS but it's not active anymore.
> Folding@Home is proprietary.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
Thanks, i've already seen it.
However, many of those projects, which are "active", actually are not active anymore. Also, it does not say if the project is FOSS based or not, so i was looking for a "short answer" or a "quick tip" from this community.
It does say if the projects are BOINC based (colored column). BOINC is listed on the FSF free software directory. I clicked on a random project (Einstein@home) that is BOINC based and wikipedia says it GPL v 2.
Einstein@home is active: https://einsteinathome.org/
Says it is GPL licensed: https://einsteinathome.org/application-source-code-and-license
Lots more projects here, although not all are active: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
I haven't checked individual licensing, but if they are using BOINC, then it is GPL'd: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
As far as I understand, BOINC's license does not imply anything on the license of the software that runs on it. Am I wrong?
