World Community Grid Releases Linux Agent

GrahamHood from WorldCommunityGrid.org writes "The World Community Grid is proud to announce the release of a Linux Agent, for the current Human Proteome Folding Project. Team Slashdot, being the #1 team on the World Community Grid, will be pleased to hear that it is now available for download."

Questions

[trollable]

The fact there is now a linux client is a good things. However, there is a few things that are not very clear. I scan quickly both grid.org and worldcommunitygrid.org.

1) Who can access the results?
2) What are the policies for the input and output?
3) Can any researcher use the results?
4) Is the client close-source?

Thanks

Re:That's some effort

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you guys just run BOINC, which is open-source and runs on all sorts of platforms and projects? It seems kind of lame to act like supporting a multi-national conglomerate like IBM is "rad" and they only run one boring project.

READ THE EULA

[putko]

There is a EULA, and it looks pretty irritating [worldcommunitygrid.org].

I will leave it to the EULA vultures to pick over this thing -- but it is a doozy.

Heh Heh

[TubeSteak]

"No news story has appeared yet on ./ as I'm writing this. You should submit one (I have to go). Be sure to mention that the project has previously been featured on Slashdot on 2004/12/30(31 ?), so that moderators can moderate "-1 Redundant" posts containing some form of mention that the news is a dupe ;-)"

That's the last post in their official slashdot thread

someone's got a sense of humor

Source

[Vo0k]

For anyone asking: No idea what's the license but the source code is open:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/source_code.php [berkeley.edu]
(by the way, they really make it hard to get there from the main page...)

Re:Ridiculous

[SolitaryMan]

I would be rather uncomfortable about running a cpu heavy application which requires internet access without some way of auditing its behavior.

I find it more than just uncomfortable. It's ridiculous to ask me for some of my computing power, while in return giving some weird EULA to accept and non-free (as in freedom) application.