Re: Packaging mothur for Debian
Hi Pat,
I rechecked the Wiki using Google site search and there is actually a
hint at http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Set.logfile which is helpfull in so
far that it trained me reading the output to stdout of mothur which
clearly specifies GPL. :-)
So many thanks for clarifying this issue!
I'll upload the current version to the Debian mirrors which will take
some time for a new program (especially these days short before the
release of Debian 6.0). Once you might have issued a new version this
will proceed more quickly and will target to the next Debian release.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:05:35PM -0500, Pat Schloss wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Thanks for your interest in putting mothur into a Debian package. Although I think we say it on the wiki, we keep forgetting to put the GPL license into our releases. We will hopefully be making a release later this week and will update our naming scheme so that Debian can find the latest version.
>
> Please check back in on us next week and let us know how it looks.
>
> Thanks!
> Pat
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:52 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > the Debian Med team would like to package your fine software mothur for
> > the official Debian distribution to enable biologists a quite easy
> > installation. When I downloaded the source of mothur I realised that
> > there is no license statement contained in the source code itself nor
> > can I find anything on the web page. However, to enable us distributing
> > mothur we need a clear license statement. It would be really great if
> > mothur would be shipped under a free License like GPL, BSD or something
> > like this. Could you please clarify this issue (which is quite
> > important in any case even if you ignore the Debian packaging issue).
> >
> > Moreover there is another minor technical issue. The Debian
> > infrastructure provides means to parse websites for new versions of
> > software. This somehow relies on version numbers of files. You
> > currently are numbering only older versions and the latest version is
> > simply Mothur.source.zip. What probably turns out simple for your
> > maintenance in the wiki blocks us to reliebally notice that a new
> > version was issued. So it would be really helpfull if the latest
> > source tarball filename would contain a version string as well.
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks for providing this fine software
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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