Re: Packaging NGS QC Toolkit for Debian
Hi Mukesh,
I have no idea whether this mail might have reached you. Any hint under
what license ngsqctoolkit is distributed?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:19:21PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Mukesh Jain,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which tries to include
> any free software in biology and medicine into main Debian. I stumbled
> upon your NGS QC Toolkit which seems to fit nicely into the biology task
> of Debian Med[1]. When trying to create a Debian package I stumbled upon
> the following issues:
>
> 1. On your website[2] you are linking to
> http://www.nipgr.res.in/ngsqctoolkit.html
> Unfortunately this resolves only to an empty page. When doing
> a web search the toolkit can be found here:
> http://59.163.192.90:8080/ngsqctoolkit/
> Most probably some DNS is broken and I'd suggest to sort this
> out with your local admins to make sure the toolkot can be found
> by interested people.
>
> 2. Neither at the website nor in the downloadable code or
> documentation I can find some licensing statement that would
> define the conditions people can use the code. This is considered
> as non-free by Debian. It would be really great if you would
> consider to use a free license (for instance GPL or BSD) for
> the code of NGS QC Toolkit
>
> 3. There is a file NGSQCToolkitv2.3.3_manual.pdf inside the
> download tarball. Would you be able to provide the source of
> this file as well? It does not look like created using LaTeX
> but some editable format (like ODF) would be great. Otherwise
> we would need to strip this documentation from the Debian package.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> [2] http://nipgr.res.in/research/dr_mjain.php
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