Re: libbam-dev ships sam.h in /usr/include/samtools
Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2011, 12:03:07 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili:
> On 06/03/2011 11:46 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2011, 11:30:12 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili:
> >> On 05/30/2011 05:43 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> >>> On 05/29/2011 04:50 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >>>> Dear Alex,
> >>>>
> >>>> I reviewed the licenses in the sources of Cufflinks and found that
> >>>> the files under src/locfit are not free, because their license
> >>>> forbids to make benchmarks…
> >>>>
> >>>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/cufflinks.git;a=blob;f=
> >>>> de bian/copyright;h=af50c87d0a97f9db7c35b77e7af3f9ee321d4f69;hb=HEAD
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Would you have time to contact the authors of Cufflinks or locfit to
> >>>> sort out
> >>>> the situation, or shall we distribute cufflinks in non-free ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Have a nice day,
> >>>
> >>> Sure , I try to get in touch with locfit authors .
> >>>
> >>> Best regards ,
> >>> Alex
> >>
> >> Hi Charles and Debian Med ,
> >>
> >> I tried to contact the author of locfit , but unsuccessfully .
> >> The author is Catherine Loader , but the email addresses on the website
> >> http://stat.bell-labs.com/project/locfit/index.html
> >> are not valid . I tried to find other addresses , and wrote a message
> >> but didn't get any answer , so I assume that they also are not valid .
> >
> > The page you reference states that back in 2002 this person moved
> > Universities.
> >
> > You did try the contact detials at
> >
> > http://sun.case.edu/~jiayang/contact.shtml
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Hope I did not missunderstand the issue.
> >
> > Sebastian
>
> I contacted Professor Jiayang Sun and he answered that he isn't the
> author . ( I'll change cufflink's copyright )
> I think that the author is Catherine Loader .
> for both emails I could found from the site I got "Delivery to the
> following recipient failed permanently:"
> So , I googled a bit , and found some other emails , but I didn't get
> any answer for about a week .
Not getting an answer for a week is not unusual. We (GNUmed) have not heard
from some academic contacts at all following numerous tries with know to te
valid email addresses.
Being persistent and maybe writing to affiliates or departments of the authors
seemed to work in the past.
Thanks for the effort,
Sebastian Hilbert
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