Idea #6096: Add Folding@Home to the repositories

Written by Eldmannen the 30 Mar 08 at 14:48. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

Folding@Home is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD).

It allows people to use spare CPU cycles to contribute processing power for protein folding, so that scientists can understand cancer and other deceases.

Tags: needs-packaging

Attachments

Bug #209235 : [needs-packaging] Folding@Home

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Comments

maybeway36 wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 20:18

See: https://launchpad.net/folding

greg-g wrote on the 13 Apr 08 at 02:37

Mentioned this in the bug report, but not here:

Unfortunately we can't, it is not legally able to be redistributed by Ubuntu.

Take a look at: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/License

"You may not alter the software or associated data files.

You may only use unmodified versions of Folding@home obtained through authorized distributors to connect to the Folding@Home servers. Use of other software to connect to the Folding@home servers is strictly prohibited.

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)."

Would be nice though.

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