Re: PhiPack license

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Trevor,

I think I'm lacking a direct contact to D. Bryant - otherwise I would
have written directly to him.  I tried to download

   http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/software/PhiPack.tar

but it did not change.  I have not found any other download location.

Could anybody please provide a direct download link?

Thanks a lot for your patience

       Andreas.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:06:34AM -0400, Trevor Bruen wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> The GNU license is now incorporated into the distribution available on the Otago website website.  D. Bryant was also able to include the patch elements.  Good luck with your distribution.      
> 
> Trevor
> 
> 
> > On Apr 20, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Trevor,
> > 
> > whoever might care now for the PhiPack code might like to find a patch
> > to build with modern gcc here:
> > 
> >    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/phipack.git/tree/debian/patches/fix_build_error.patch
> > 
> > Any news about the license?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >      Andreas.
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:58:59AM -0400, Trevor Bruen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Yes - I have contacted D. Bryant who hosts the page.  It may take some time to get this sorted out, but I will let you know once resolved.
> >> 
> >> Trevor
> >>> On Apr 14, 2016, at 8:38 AM, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Trevor,
> >>> 
> >>> thanks a lot for the quick and helpful response.  If the code is "as is" that's
> >>> fine provided it has a free license.
> >>> 
> >>> Kind regards
> >>> 
> >>>      Andreas.
> >>> 
> >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:47:38AM -0400, Trevor Bruen wrote:
> >>>> Hi, 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I was contacted via twitter.  Yes - I will contact one of my coauthors and look into these matters - he maintains a copy of the program on a public website.  It will take me a little time to get this sorted out.  The code is not maintained and is strictly “as is”, but I will see if we can add a license to it.
> >>>> 
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Trevor
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hello Trevor,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
> >>>>> Debian with the objective to package free software in the field of
> >>>>> biology and medicine for main Debian.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> My plan is to package ParSNP[1] for Debian.  The download archive
> >>>>> contains a copy of the executable Profile which according to the ParSNP
> >>>>> author originates from your code available as a plain tar archive[2].
> >>>>> Since Debian does not allow binary code without source my task would be
> >>>>> to turn PhiPack into a Debian package to use this code for ParSNP.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> To do so the code is missing a license statemend which permits us to
> >>>>> distribute PhiPack.  I'd suggest some license like GPL, BSD or similar
> >>>>> common licenses.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> It would be also very nice if there would be some homepage with a short
> >>>>> description of the code which could link to the download archive and the
> >>>>> according paper[3].  BTW, to provide the paper as documentation we'd
> >>>>> also need the (LaTeX?)-source.  Tagging the tarball with a version would
> >>>>> also be helpfull - non-versioned files with may be changing content
> >>>>> would prevent us from noticing possible fixes of the software.  IMHO,
> >>>>> the easiest way to fullfill the above wishes would be to use some
> >>>>> hosting platform (Github, SourceForge) and move the code there.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Kind regards and thanks for considering a free license
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>     Andreas.
> >>>> 
> >>> 
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> >> 
> >> 
> > 
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