Can't download the lunatics installer 0.40

It's unusual to have a problem after all this time, but I'm sure this is necessary, even though inconvenient. Can anyone from Luntics give us a clue as to timescales here. Are we talking days, weeks or months? Nice to know how long we have to be patient :-)

There is a issue with Intel and GPL.
Some of the apps needs to be rewritten and recompiled with other compilers.
This will take a while.
No time frame yet.

Richard can explain better probably.


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Richard can explain better probably.

Will anyone be angry if I (or anybody) upload the Lunatics v0.40 Installers to a free hosting site
and give the link?

Since I never cared about so called 'licensing' (of any program) I find it amusing that:
- If we (the users) already have the program we can use it regardless of this 'licensing' abracadabra
- But we may not give (publicly) the same code (that was free) to others (that probably already used Lunatics Installers but deleted them from the HDD thinking they will be always available for download)

??

Since I never cared about so called 'licensing' (of any program)

Since I never cared about so called 'licensing' (of any program)

Then it's high time you did, we don't need loose cannons around here.

Intel have historically been good to the Seti project, I see no reason to aggravate them unnecessarily. Richard has given us the current situation, I'm sure that Eric as a very busy man, would prefer not to have to issue an official statement.

but deleted them from the HDD thinking they will be always available for download

This case shows once again, that you should never rely on some websites which might change, become temporarily unavailable or even disappear from the web, better archive everything as far as possible yourself. I store all downloaded installers on my USB-HDD, usually I never need them and just have some additional work replacing the older versions with new ones, but in situation like this one it can really help. Also very usefull for hardware drivers, the manufacturers sometimes remove those for older hardware from their webside and think that people will buy something new because of that.

but deleted them from the HDD thinking they will be always available for download

This case shows once again, that you should never rely on some websites which might change, become temporarily unavailable or even disappear from the web, better archive everything as far as possible yourself. I store all downloaded installers on my USB-HDD, usually I never need them and just have some additional work replacing the older versions with new ones, but in situation like this one it can really help. Also very usefull for hardware drivers, the manufacturers sometimes remove those for older hardware from their webside and think that people will buy something new because of that.

This is why I archive things. Just in case I might need them later. At the moment I only have the all of the installers from v0.37 to v0.40. Since I have them compressed they take up a whopping 30MB.

But those who already have installed the Optimized Applications,
including the LUNATICs V40 Installer and still run it, can keep on running it.
Until a new version is available?
(Me, too have copies of the V0.37, V0.38, V0.39 and V0.40 installers).

The situation is made more complicated by changes in personnel since 2006, and by the current revived push to deploy SETI v7 here - that involves re-writing and re-testing all applications, both stock and optimised. We're doing everything we can, but we're reliant on input from other busy people too.

Will anyone be angry if I (or anybody) upload the Lunatics v0.40 Installers to a free hosting site
and give the link?

Eric Korpela, the Regents of the University of California, and the Free Software Foundation might all wish to have words with you. It's probably better not, until we can get a legal ruling.