Re: Please choose a free license for eigensoft
Dear Andreas,
We have now released EIGENSOFT 6.1.2 with a new license, per your request.
Sincerely,
Alkes
On 6/30/16, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>
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Dr. Alkes Price, Associate Professor / Associate Member
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Depts of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Program in Medical and Population Genetics
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