This is a Debian prepackaged version of the PrimeNet GIMPS client.

This package was put together by Francois Gouget <fgouget@multimania.com>, 
using sources from:
	http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
I download all the linux clients (i.e. currently only i386).


The following copyright applies to this package (taken from the source files):

> Copyright 1995-1997 - Just For Fun Software, Inc., all rights reserved
> Author:  George Woltman
> Email: woltman@alumn.mit.edu


Note that use of this program is subject to the following restriction 
(as stated in the readme file).

> To use this program you must agree to the prize rules at
> http://www.mersenne.org/prize.htm

For your convenience a copy of the prize.htm file has been included in this 
package.

I contacted George Woltman about allowing the client to be distributed in 
Debian. Here is his answer:

> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:51:25 -0500
> From: George Woltman <woltman@alum.mit.edu>
> To: Francois Gouget <fgouget@psn.net>
> Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: PrimeNet GIMPS client packaging for Debian
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At 01:53 PM 11/7/99 -0800, Francois Gouget wrote:
> >       I completed the packaging of the 18.1 client for Debian. I also
> >found an official Debian developer who accepted to sponsor the package. 
> >This sponsor is Stephane Bortzmeyer and he helped me make sure the
> >package was correct and fix some packaging issues.
> 
> Excellent work.  Thanks for all your efforts!
> 
> Some news:  I just released version 19.1 yesterday.  However, this should not
> affect you.  It contains a patch that solves a problem connecting to the
> server - but this only happened with older Linux clients using the
> staticly linked version.  Thus the ideal package will contain either
> version 19.0 or 19.1.
> 
> >       Usually the redistribution permission comes from the software's
> >license (like GPL, BSD, MPL, etc.) but it can also be as simple as an
> >email from the author authorizing the redistribution of the software
> >together with the Debian distribution. The latter is what was done for
> >the distributed-net package (I attached it for reference). 
> 
> OK.  You have my permission to include the Mersenne prime package in
> Debian's Linux release.  In fact I'd be honored, we can certainly use
> any spare computer cycles your users can donate.  While there is no
> official license agreement - I'm a programmer not a lawyer - you can
> visit http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm and
> http://www.mersenne.org/prize.htm to see that the software has always
> been free as long as the user agrees to the simple prize rules.
> 
> Thanks again,
> George
