Packaging NGS QC Toolkit for Debian
Hi Mukesh Jain,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which tries to include
any free software in biology and medicine into main Debian. I stumbled
upon your NGS QC Toolkit which seems to fit nicely into the biology task
of Debian Med[1]. When trying to create a Debian package I stumbled upon
the following issues:
1. On your website[2] you are linking to
http://www.nipgr.res.in/ngsqctoolkit.html
Unfortunately this resolves only to an empty page. When doing
a web search the toolkit can be found here:
http://59.163.192.90:8080/ngsqctoolkit/
Most probably some DNS is broken and I'd suggest to sort this
out with your local admins to make sure the toolkot can be found
by interested people.
2. Neither at the website nor in the downloadable code or
documentation I can find some licensing statement that would
define the conditions people can use the code. This is considered
as non-free by Debian. It would be really great if you would
consider to use a free license (for instance GPL or BSD) for
the code of NGS QC Toolkit
3. There is a file NGSQCToolkitv2.3.3_manual.pdf inside the
download tarball. Would you be able to provide the source of
this file as well? It does not look like created using LaTeX
but some editable format (like ODF) would be great. Otherwise
we would need to strip this documentation from the Debian package.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
[2] http://nipgr.res.in/research/dr_mjain.php
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