Please add a license (preferably also a version and a website) for PhiPack
Hello Trevor,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
Debian with the objective to package free software in the field of
biology and medicine for main Debian.
My plan is to package ParSNP[1] for Debian. The download archive
contains a copy of the executable Profile which according to the ParSNP
author originates from your code available as a plain tar archive[2].
Since Debian does not allow binary code without source my task would be
to turn PhiPack into a Debian package to use this code for ParSNP.
To do so the code is missing a license statemend which permits us to
distribute PhiPack. I'd suggest some license like GPL, BSD or similar
common licenses.
It would be also very nice if there would be some homepage with a short
description of the code which could link to the download archive and the
according paper[3]. BTW, to provide the paper as documentation we'd
also need the (LaTeX?)-source. Tagging the tarball with a version would
also be helpfull - non-versioned files with may be changing content
would prevent us from noticing possible fixes of the software. IMHO,
the easiest way to fullfill the above wishes would be to use some
hosting platform (Github, SourceForge) and move the code there.
Kind regards and thanks for considering a free license
Andreas.
[1] http://harvest.readthedocs.org/en/latest/content/parsnp.html
[2] http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/software/PhiPack.tar
[3] http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/software/phimanual.pdf
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