The source code for Moose has been previously released at gnucleus.net
The serial number and other special features are locked in a private binary that is highly connected and compiled into the code base to protect our time investment. This is also legal under the GPL.
Moose checks into the home site every so often to check for new versions, obtain a fresh list of hosts, and confirm the serial number.
A small amount of statistical information is transfered at that time via a secured encrypted connection. Things like what types of files were downloaded, number of megabytes transfered, how many connections were dropped, keywords searched, file content type, horizon size, files shared, connection speed, service provider, etc. This information is added to a large statistical database for general overall statistical information only and will not be specific to any user. It will all be laid out in our new privacy policy that must be agreed to when you first run Moose.
We will have a very comprehensive statistics web page available to our subscribed users on the web site. We provide valuable information to all our users.
The Moose is coming along quite nicely.

Use the Moose!