Re: Please choose a free license for eigensoft
Hello again,
I have not received any response from your side. I wonder whether the
mail addresses I used are active and if you are involved in the process
of deciding about a license.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 02:10:21PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
> Debian with the objective to package free software with relevance in
> biology and medicine for official Debian. As you might possibly know we
> have created packages also from eigensoft as you can see on our so
> called tasks biology page[1].
>
> Since I realised that there is a new version available I wanted to
> discuss the licensing issue with you before we are upgrading the
> package. The problem is that the current licensing permits a
> distribution inside official Debiani. According to the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines[2] which are widely accepted as Open Source
> definition the current license is not free since it is restricted to
> a specific (== non-commercial) use.
>
> I wonder whether you might consider changing the licensing to some free
> license like GPL, BSD or MPL - just anything that has no such
> restricttion to non-commercial use. You might like to know that several
> other authors of biologic software recently switched to free licenses
> (may be most prominently phylib). The advantage for you inside Debian
> would be a higher visibility of eigensoft (since we distribute it with
> metapackages) and a way better quality assurance since Debian is running
> several tools to automatically detect problems inside the distributed
> software.
>
> Another (unrelated) question is whether there are any publications
> connected to eigensoft. As you can see in the entries of other packages
> on our tasks page[1] we usually add publications to the scientific
> software we are packaging. Just let me know if you want me to add such
> a record for eigensoft.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#eigensoft
> [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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