Intent to package: tkSETI
Hi,
I intend to package tkSETI, a GUI frontend to the SETI@Home client for
Unix. TkSETI is GPLed. The homepage for tkSETI is
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti/tkseti.html
This program requires the user to download the SETI@Home unix client
from the official SETI@Home website: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
SETI@Home is a unique scientific experiment that harnesses the power of
thousands of internet-connected computers in the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
A question for developers: tkSETI the frontend is GPL. But the
setiathome client is only available as a binary (for both scientific
and security considerations. Scientific, because the SETI folks don't
want you to change the data analysis style. Security because hackers
could compromise their database server). Is tkseti then non-free?
Thanks for any pointers!
Gopal Narayanan
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