Re: Confusion about RAxML versions and copyright

[Alexandros Stamatakis <Alexandros.Stamatakis@epfl.ch>]

Dear Andreas,

> I'm currently browsing my mailbox for old mails to update my todo list.
> I stumbled uppon your old mail to the Debian-Med list (full quote and
> short summary because this is an English speaking list).
>
> You mentioned the latest version of RAxML-VI-HPC (v2.2.3) is available
> at
>
>    http://icwww.epfl.ch/~stamatak/index-Dateien/Page443.htm
>
> while giving the hint that there might be a drastically enhanced
> version available at the end of this year.  

Yes, I am currently working on it, you should get an email regarding this
hoepfully soon.

> Even more importantly
> you agreed to add a license statement to the software.  This is the
> issue I why I ask once more to be sure when adding the record to
> our TODO-list: Is it positively clear that you will use GPL (in
> this case I would mention this).  

Yes, that is correct, if I am not seriously mistaken I already added a GPL
license to the source code following you inquiry.

> Moreover I found links to
> AxParafit and AxPcoords on your homepage where the description says:
>
>   AxParafit and AxPcoords are highly optimized versions of Pierre
>   Legendre's Parafit and DistPCoA programs for statistical analysis
>   of host-parasite coevolution. AxParafit has also been parallelized
>   with MPI (Message Passing Interface) for compute clusters. We have
>   used parallel AxParafit to carry out the largest co-evolutionary
>   analysis to date for the paper describing the software.
>
> This would probably be interesting as well for Debian-Med but there
> is also no license statement available.

There is if you go to this page http://icwww.epfl.ch/~stamatak/AxParafit.html

"Manual, Source Code (under GPL), and Binaries"

> Could you please comment on this?

Just go ahead.

> Kind regards and thanks for linking Debian-Med on you page

Sure :-) Thanks for integrating my programs into debian-med.

Greetings from Athens,

Alexis

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