Re: seq-gen appears to be non-free
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:33:40AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> > 1. It seems that parts of PAML should be moved to a library (considering
> > the fact that you suspect that several projects might use this code).
> >
> >
> As far as I see it is not correct for seq-gen package.
> The header in files mentioned in debian/copyright has statement that the
> code is taken from the PAML package, but in the PAML distribution I
> couldn't find files with similar names.
Which makes the issue of copyright / licensing even more delicate.
> It seems that only some parts of code are taken from PAML and I don't
> see how making PAML a library can help in this case.
This is even technically questionable. Both upstream should rather sit
together and make some sense out of their code sharing habit. Sounds
like a maintenance hell to pick random parts of code from foreign
projects.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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