Re: SSPACE-basic GitHub repository
Dear Nicola,
[...]
>> If Baseclear have discontinued SSPACE-basic, I was wondering if you
>> would be OK with being our upstream contact for SSPACE-basic? That means
>> that we would possibly forward bug reports, patches, etc. from Debian to
>> you if they address the SSPACE-basic software itself.
>
> That would be fine for me, but unfortunately I can't guarantee I will
> have time/resources to fix the issues. I created the repository mainly
> because I wrote a Galaxy wrapper for SSPACE basic and the original
> download location disappeared. Also I wanted to preserve the code for
> anyone that wants to use it, but this is not my project or work!
Oh, I realized that, no worries! FWIW, I would even compare releasing a
Debian package with a Galaxy deployment in that both could potentially
cause an end user to report potential issues which might be only looked
at later. I guess that's not uncommon in open-source work...
>> we won't be able to include the PDF manuals
>> without the source they were created from (LaTeX, Word, ...) also
>> included in the repository. This is a Debian policy; if these are
>> not available we'd have to exclude them from the packaged version.
>> An alternative is to just make plain text versions (copy&paste?)
>> and to include them in the repository. This would need to be done
>> on your side as well though.
>
> I can take a look in merging the PDF manuals and the README in 2
> MarkDown files, it's all just text.
That would indeed be perfect, from that we could create all sorts of
documentation (manpages, PDF, etc.).
Many thanks for looking into it.
Cheers
Sascha
>>> --
>>> Nicola Soranzo, Ph.D.
>>> Data Infrastructure & Algorithms group
>>> The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)
>>> Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK
>>> http://www.tgac.ac.uk/sequencing-informatics/
>>>
>>> On 04/06/16 16:49, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
>>>> Dear Dr. Soranzo,
>>>>
>>>> I am writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team, a group within the
>>>> Debian project with the objective to package free software with
>>>> relevance in biology and medicine for official Debian.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that you provide a GitHub repository with the SSPACE basic
>>>> source code [1], under the GPLv2 [2]. This version of SSPACE would in
>>>> principle be possible to be packaged for Debian, as inclusion into the
>>>> main archive requires such a free license, allowing for free
>>>> redistribution.
>>>> I was wondering how the version that you provide relates to the
>>>> non-free version (SSPACE standard) provided by Baseclear [3]. Is the
>>>> one that you provide a different or reduced-functionality version
>>>> compared to theirs? Most importantly, Baseclear make no mention of any
>>>> kind of free license — on the contrary, they require users to contact
>>>> them to obtain the software and also handle commercial users
>>>> separately, a notion that the GPL does not have.
>>>>
>>>> I would be glad if you could clarify how this GPL-licensed version
>>>> came to be? We would be very thankful if this was a version that the
>>>> original authors of SSPACE released under a free license, and would be
>>>> happy to package it for Debian.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Sascha Steinbiss
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/nsoranzo/sspace_basic
>>>> [2] https://github.com/nsoranzo/sspace_basic/blob/master/COPYING
>>>> [3] http://www.baseclear.com/genomics/bioinformatics/basetools/SSPACE
>>
>
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