Re: Please choose a free license for eigensoft
Dear Alkes,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:06:56PM -0400, Alkes Price wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> We have now released EIGENSOFT 6.1.2 with a new license, per your request.
Thanks a lot, that's very helpful.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://fam-tille.de
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
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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
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