Re: E-Petition to free PhyLip - please sign (Re: Report from Debian Med sprint)
Hi Eric,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Eric Talevich wrote:
> Joe Felsenstein's rationale for not using the GPL seems to be so that he
> can maintain a count of how many people are using Phylip.
I can not see in how far the currently used license can help here and I
do not think that we should at this point "speculate" about possible
reasons for the license. This might be done in response to some
arguments from the author.
> This is important
> for grants -- it's best to have clear metrics. Perhaps it would be helpful
> to mention in the petition that Debian can provide some rough usage numbers
> through PopCon, and similarly for Ubuntu.
Just for the sake of providing some information I added a link to the
Debian popcon page for phylip in the "Further reading" section - could
anybody do so for Ubuntu (I did not found the relevant page).
> He also mentions on his website that he wants to be able to nag users to
> upgrade to the latest version. It might reassure him that having Phylip
> packaged for distros would make it even more likely that users will stay
> up-to-date.
I'd also leave this to further discussion if you ask me - feel free to add
this to the e-petition if you think this should be done.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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