Libreboinc: A totally free Boinc, only for free projects
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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.
That is a brilliant idea! Shame I cannot help out in terms of the technology, but the idea is a great start.
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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.
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?
> 2. It has a restriction but maybe it isn´t a problem:
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> Restrictions
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> 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.
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.
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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, <name at domain>.
//
//
// 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 (name at domain)
//
//
// 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.
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Here is the LibreBoinc repository https://gitorious.org/libreboinc.
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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.
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Maybe I should just make it a patch, the differences seems rather static and that way I wouldn´t need to keep it up to date.
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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.
So, did this go anywhere?
Libreboinc seems to have stalled. And packages descendent from the boinc soucre package will shortly be dropped from the repos. See #5658: [GFSD Issue] Package boinc downloads nonfree apps
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