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Free Software BOINC projects
I’ve long been a fan of distributed computing and I’ve participated in several different projects over the years, everything from United Devices to Folding@home. Over the years I’ve grown fond of Free Software and I switched over to BOINC after much frustration with Folding@home’s poor Linux support; failing to give a client compatible with my distro’s glibc. At first I didn’t care much about which licenses the BOINC projects I chose to participate in used and I chose mainly on the basis of what I thought was interesting. After some thinking I finally took licensing into account.
The amount of Free Software BOINC projects is very low even though the BOINC client itself is free. Here’s a list of those I’ve found to be free:
- SETI@home, GPLv2
- Eintein@home, GPLv2
- Leiden Classical, LGPLv2.1
- The Lattice Project, some are GPLv3 it seems. Not all Free Software.
- AQUA@home, BSD style
- FreeHAL@home, GPLv3
This list was made from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php and if I’ve missed one or more, please comment.