Re: TM-align for Debian
Dear Yang,
besides that I fully subscribe what Tim said in his mail I would like to
add the hint that it would be very helpful, if you could some versioning
on the downloadable source code. The rationale behind this is, that
Debian has a mechanism which automatically parses download areas for new
versions and we will get an immediate notification about any update of
your code. Usually people who provide software (in Debian slang these
are called upstream authors) include their code into a zip or tar archive
and put a version on it. If you do not like this solution I might try
to find out some way which might work as an alternative.
I hope you like our intend to provide TM-align in Debian and thanks
for providing this program
Andreas.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 06:01:42PM +0000, Tim Booth wrote:
> Dear Yang,
>
> Today at the Debian-Med bioinformatics sprint we have worked on adding
> your TM-align software to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. This will
> allow Debian or Ubuntu users to discover and install the software
> directly from their package manager, and will also help users who want
> to perform TM-align analysis as part of the T-Coffee tool and similar
> pipelines. The new package should now appear in the main Debian archive
> within a few days.
>
> I see that TM-align is being actively maintained. Debian-Med
> maintainers will continue to add new versions of the script to the
> Debian archive as they become available. The source file currently
> contains a brief licence statement saying that it may be freely modified
> and redistributed so long as the notice is maintained, but ideally we
> hope that you could assign a full open source license to the code. This
> would clarify that there are no limitations on who may use the code, and
> what restrictions apply to the distribution of compiled versions (eg.
> that source must be included). Assigning a recognised OSS license to
> each package is very useful to us in Debian for auditing purposes.
> Popular choices include the GPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), BSD
> (www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) and Artistic (as used by
> Perl) (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0).
>
> Are you able to assign an OSI-recognised license to TM-align?
>
> Thankyou for making this software available to the community.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim Booth
>
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