Please provide source code for Tandem Repeats Finder under a freely redistributable license
Dear Yözen,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a subgroup
inside Debian with the objective to package free software in the field
of biology and medicine for official Debian. Since we intend to package
RepeatMasker (see our so called task list in the todo-section[1]) we
also need to package your tool Tandem Repeats Finder[2].
Since Debian only distributes free software (for instance licensed under
GPL, BSD or so) we are wondering whether you might consider to publish
the source code of this software under a free license.
The advantage would be that users of Debian / Ubuntu and its derivatives
systems which are quite frequently used in bioinformatics could easily
install your software. You also get some additional quality assurance
and I can confirm that all authors who decided to open source their
software to enable the Debian Med packaging team were happy about this
step since it contributed to a wider distribution of their software and
a better user response.
Kind regards and thanks for considering
Andreas.
[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#repeatmasker
[2] http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html
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