Re: PHYLIP is now free software

[Peter Rice <ricepeterm@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi Andreas

On 12/05/2015 10:21, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi EMBOSS team,
>
> I would like to inform you that the authors of PHYLIP have put their
> code under a BSD-2-clause license last autumn.  So the phylip package in
> Debian went from non-free into the main Debian distribution.  Since
> there is another instance of this code integrated into Debian which is
> provided by EMBOSS[1] I wonder whether you might want to consider
> switching to the new upstream version 3.696 which is basically the
> relicensed code of 3.695.  This would enable the distribution inside the
> main Debian distribution.

Excellent news. Many thanks. I will take a look at any other changes 
between versions to see what we can do.

Peter