On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:21:09AM +0100, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > What exactly is glucas relation to GIMPS, especially the non-free terms > decribed in http://www.mersenne.org/prize.htm ?
Those terms apply "if you find such a prime with the software provided". glucas is third party software. It doesn't even have any native support for the PrimeNet server, but if you're trying to find a new prime it makes sense to manually reserve exponents on the server to avoid duplicating effort. By the way, the "provided software" is available in the prime-net package on i386. That's my understanding. I've forwarded the question to the Mersenne forum for confirmation.
