Re: Please help contacting Trevor Bruen (Was: Please add a license (preferably also a version and a website) for PhiPack)
On 04/14/2016 09:15 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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?
He is in LinkedIn by there is no contact info, and I have no way to
contact him directly. Last experience is at end november 2015, no
position shown after that to give a hint where we could contact him.
Olivier
>
> 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
>>
>> --
>> http://fam-tille.de
>>
>>
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