Re: [Soap] Source code for SOAPdenovo available?
Hi RuiBang,
many thanks for considering to release your bio-medical software under a
free license. While my question rather was about SOAPdenovo because
some colleague had some explicite interest in this part we definitely are
interested in including other high quality software - provided that the
license is free according to the Free Software definition.
In the past we made quiet good experience in working closely together
with the authors of this software (in Debian slang "upstream authors").
They know best about the details of their software and in several cases
we just trained them in building Debian packages and the Debian Med team
acted as so called sponsors of the packages into the official Debian
distribution. It depends a bit from the complexity of the build system
what way is the most effective way to finally get the packages ready
into shape. So once I have seen your code I can make a suggestion how
we reasonably proceede to reach the common goal which is making your
software more popular and usable in the world of biologic research and
making Debian in its flavour Debian Med even better fit for biologists.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:06:52PM +0800, Ruibang Luo wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> After discussion, we are about to release the code of SOAPdenovo and have it included in Debian.
> But I have a question. Is this just for assemblers? Since SOAP itself is a package including SOAPaligner, SOAPsnp and etc, we'd like the whole SOAP to be available in Debian.
>
>
> Best!
>
> RuiBang Luo
> BGI-Shenzhen
>
>
>
>
> On 2011-2-11, at 下午10:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing on behalf of the Debian Med project which tries to assemble
> > Free Software for bio-medical research in a ready to install form inside
> > the Debian GNU/Linux system (and thus as a consequence into Ubuntu). A
> > colleague of mine started using SOAPdenovo and thus I'm considering it
> > a good target for including it into Debian. When reading the homepage[1]
> > I see
> >
> > "Only precompiled binary version available now."
> >
> > The question is: If the source is not available NOW, do you have any
> > plans for the future? Will you possibly release the source code under
> > a license which would enable us packaging it for Debian? Any free
> > license (like GPL, BSD or something like this) would be really great.
> > If you would consider to provide the source under a free license we hope
> > to be able ti make your program even more popular in the bio-medical
> > researchers world because Debian and its bio-medical derivatives seem to
> > become more and more interesting by assembling a useful set of tools
> > which covers all workfields in Biology.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > [1] http://soap.genomics.org.cn/soapdenovo.html
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
>
>
--
http://fam-tille.de
Reply to: