You no longer need to leave yourself logged on to process work units. This can leave you without any SETI processing for an extended period of time until you come back to the machine and notice the client's window is gone. This means that you have the right to a source distribution if you would like to experiment with the service's source code, or just see how it was written. Once you have the compiler installed, creating the service is simple. If your internet access is provided through a proxy server, this will most likely fail.
Contributions are welcome.
You will probably also want to follow the instructions to set it up as a service. Make sure to note the IP address and Port Number it is configured with. You can repeat this process for any number of machines in the network. The license is available in this distribution in the file gpl.txt. The general gist of the license is that, for any distributed software ultimately derived from even a part of this package, you will always have the right to obtain a copy of the sources.