Re: Free source code of fastsimcoal2 available?
Hi Laurent,
thanks for your quick reply even if it is sad and actually unexpected
news since so many similar tools consider opening the source as a
productivity enhancement. Feel free to contact us on this channel in
case you might change your mind.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:12:24PM +0200, Laurent Excoffier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very flattered that you think of including fastsimcoal2 in the
> Debian distribution, but unfortunately, the source code is not
> available
>
> best regards
>
> laurent
>
> On 02.09.2014 10:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >Hi Laurent,
> >
> >I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which tries to assemble
> >free software in biology inside the official Debian distribution. We
> >have created Debian packages of several biological applications[1] and
> >development tools[2]. When running the test suite of BioPython I
> >realised that it has an interface to fastsimcoal2 and I had a look at
> >its website[3]. Unfortunately I can find only binary downloads without
> >source code there and no statement whether the source might be available
> >or not. I wonder whether you might consider to release the code under a
> >free license which would enable us to include fastsimcoal2 into Debian.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> >[2] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio-dev
> >[3] http://cmpg.unibe.ch/software/fastsimcoal2/
> >
>
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>
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