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Re: Anybody with contacts to the University of Washington



Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> there are two packages developed by peoples from the University of Washington
> which would be interesting for Debian-Med.  Like the famous phylip (same
> university these packages are covered by a non-free (or even no) license:

Joe isn't going to change Phylip's license.  No, never, nada.

>   Tinker: http://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/
>           License at http://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/license.html

Washington University is in St. Louis, Missouri.  Approx 2000-3000
miles away.   Completely different institution.

>   Raster3D: http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html
>           I did not found a license.
>
> It would be great if somebody would spend his time to explain the authors
> (or should I say authorities here, because sometimes the authors are not the
> only persons involved here?) the advantages of Free Software, which advantages
> they could gain if these fine programs would be spred over the world on
> the back of Debian, etc.

I can try to talk with the latter folks re: licensing.  They are close
by (within 100 ft of my research group' lab).  Have you tried sending
email first?

best,
-tony

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