In article <kT%8e.42470$jR3.18789@edtnps84>,
Hobart <lesmurphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

this is the next version of seti@home.  it's open source, and other 

The BOINC SETI@Home client claims to be open source.  The BOINC core
isn't.  It's source is published, but under a licence that doesn't
qualify as open source.  In particular, it appears to contain third
party code which requires modifiers to licence their software using it
to the authors of that code for use by them in their proprietory software
(the encryption library).

In general, it is my biggest concern about BOINC that there is no real
evidence that they have done a proper copyright audit exercise on
it.  Even for the claimed GPL S@H client, many source files don't have
the required copyright owner and reference to the licence.