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Re: Please provide source code for Tandem Repeats Finder under a freely redistributable license



Hi once again,

it would be great to get any answer to my question about the licensing
of TRF.

Thanks and regards

       Andreas.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:54:56AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> may be its due to vacations that I have not yet heard from you until now
> regarding the licensing of TRF.  I just want to inspire you by other
> authors that have considered free licenses for instance MEGAN:
> 
>    https://github.com/danielhuson/megan-ce/
> 
> Thanks for considering a free license for TRF
> 
>      Andreas.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:18:22AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Dear Gary,
> > 
> > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a subgroup
> > inside Debian with the objective to package free software in the field
> > of biology and medicine for official Debian.  Since we intend to package
> > RepeatMasker (see our so called task list in the todo-section[1]) we
> > also need to package your tool Tandem Repeats Finder[2].
> > 
> > We've just contacted Yözen Hernández in some mails and he suggested to
> > contact you since he is not able to decide about the licensing.  It
> > would be really nice if you would consider the arguments given in these
> > two mails
> > 
> >    https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/05/msg00121.html
> >    https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/05/msg00064.html
> > 
> > into your considerations about distributing the source code.
> > 
> > Kind regards and thanks for considering
> > 
> >       Andreas.
> > 
> > [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#repeatmasker
> > [2] http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html
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> > 
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