See http://www.scicoin.org for up-to-date info
This source distribution is a clone of the Freicoin repository made around January 23rd, 2014, with some hacks on top to create a TOY, that is, COMPLETELY EXPERIMENTAL version of a new "crypto coin" called "Scicoin."
See FREICOIN_README for the README from the Freicoin project before this source fork. It has instructions on how to build, etc. The only difference is in the names: where you read "freicoin" write "scicoin" and it should work.
Scicoin differences to Freicoin in a nutshell: 1 - Unlimited coins (no hard cap on coins); 2 - Block reward is directly proportional (1:1) to the work done, i.e. the reward (block subsidy) is a linear function of the block difficulty (plus fees); 3 - A scheme to reward scientific computing projects (that may or may not work; essentially we award x100 / x1000 / x10000 more coins to a single miner that manages to control more than 50% / 66.6% / 80% of the hashing power. see the website for rationale/details); 4 - No "initial distribution" phase of coins to hard-coded wallets;
The scicoin hack was partly automated by the Perl script "makeanycoin.perl" which is also included here.
The source code probably needs a lot of cleanup, for which volunteers are much appreciated. This project currently has 1 (one) developer which is focusing on having this client correctly implement the protocol... what can be done regardless of whether the source tree is tidy or whether the client displays a version number that makes sense or whether the documentation still says "Freicoin" or "Bitcoin" in it.
There is a single hard-coded seed-node address in the code that should be up and running.
Most of the code is from the Bitcoin project. See COPYING for the legal stuff.
Some code is from the Freicoin project. See http://freico.in.
Some code is from the Scicoin project. That code is public domain.
The "recycle" project/icon image that's being used as a placeholder is from the Open Icon Library (http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net).