Re: Cufflinks and locfit's problems
Dear Cole ,
I tried to contact both Catherine Loader and Jiayang Sun .
Catherine seems to be not reachable and Jiayang couldn't help me with
license questions .
Thank you for the cooperation,
Alex
On 01/09/2012 02:42 PM, Cole Trapnell wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thanks for the update. Thanks for letting us know, and thanks for working to include Cufflinks with Debian!
>
> Who did you try to contact? LOCFIT (I believe) had two authors - Catherine Loader and Jiayang Sun. It also comes in two flavors - a standalone C package, and an R package. The C one may no longer even be maintained, and I had to heavily modify it to get it to work with our package.
>
> Unfortunately it's very hard to replace - there simply aren't that many lightweight nonlinear regression libraries out there that will do the kind of fitting that we need here. I can fix the hardening issues, and I'm happy to track down the authors of LOCFIT and see if I can get more information on the licensing status of LOCFIT.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Cole
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
>
>> I'm writing to you on behalf of Debian Med, an internal team of the
>> Debian GNU/Linux distribution which tries to make Debian prepared
>> best for use in medicine and biology. We created a Debian package [0]
>> of cufflinks but realized that we can not put it to the official repository
>> because of non-free license of its component , locfit .
>>
>> The upstream author seems to be not reachable , so I had no chance to
>> discuss the problem with him/her.
>> There is also another problem with locfit , it fails to built when applying
>> some hardening options [1].
>>
>> Therefore I want to ask you if you would consider locfit's replacing ?
>>
>> Thank you for the great software and best regards ,
>> Alex
>>
>> [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/cufflinks.git
>> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2011/12/msg00086.html
>>
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