FAH & Group Policy

[Jake.Hendy]

Hello people.

First of, thank you for such a great program! I feel better knowing I'm helping in the world somewhat!

Here's my dilemma, I've recommended this to my ICT Teacher, who says it's a brilliant idea. We use Windows throughout our school. Oh yes, I'm a 14 year old student in England! So I was wondering, because the Stanford License prohibits the redistribution of the software, would making our own set up system in house be against the License. I have seen a tutorial using WiX online (Wixfolding), however I just wanted to double check.

I'm pretty sure we could contribute a good amount of folds every day, we have a nice huge network that sits idle for at least an hour a day!

Thanks,


Jake.

[John Naylor]

The Stanford licence would probably be interpreted as prohibiting distributing the software to others (e.g. using a website of your own rather than linking to Stanford's download page). Creating your own installer if it will only be used within your school should not fall foul of the license.

Make sure you have the written permission of whoever is in charge though! The current IT teachers may be sympathetic but unless you have written permission, should they ever be replaced their successor may be less sympathetic to the cause and demand the program be removed (they might anyway even if you have written permission but it makes your life easier that way).

Good luck

EDITed for clarity.

[Jake.Hendy]

Thank you John.

I shall proceed with the WiX tutorial!

Hope you all had a good day,

Jake

[7im]

Hello Jake.Hendy, welcome to the folding forum.

I interpret the redistribution of the client as downloading it and then sending it on to other people. If you download it once, and then you copy the client to other computers, that more like distribution, not redistribution.

Good luck with your project.

P.S. Always get permission in writing to run FAH on those computers. CYA.

[Jake.Hendy]

Hi guys,

Yes, I will always get permission from the Network Manager! Helps being friendly with them all I guess
Could work very well with our Science department too...


Thanks again peoples.