Please help contacting Trevor Bruen (Was: Please add a license (preferably also a version and a website) for PhiPack)
Hi all,
my last mail to Trevor bounced. I've found that he now might be
professor at St. Francis Xavier University but I havn't found any
contact e-mail. Would someone please volunteer to ping him via FB,
Twitter, LinedIn since I'm intentionally ignoring all these social
media?
Thanks for your help
Andreas.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:00:40AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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