Alle venerdì 22 giugno 2007, Zachary Palmer ha scritto: > Hello, all. It has been my understanding that the reason that the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing software has not been made a Debian > package is that the license under which it is released does not allow it > to be free.
No, it's that the license does not allow it to be re-distributed: > Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be obtained by > downloading from Stanford's web site (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages > linked therein). while often other pieces of software that allow to be distributed (and thereon packaged) do enter the non-free section. > This software package has pretty much the best reason for > being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent > falsified results from damaging the research. Anyway this might likely not be enough for their purpose. :-( Am I wrong, right? BTW, I would encourage them to (co-)maintain an unofficial Debian package with that software inside. > And will people use it if I bother? Less than 0.02% seems to have kfolding installed [1]. But I think a lot more people have (and run) the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client, and even more would do if such a package were provided. > Thanks! Thank you. [1] source: http://popcon.debian.org/ -- Luca
