Re: Please consider a free license for ffp-phylogeny
Hi Gregory,
may be you lost this mail somehow. I wonder whether you might reconsider
the license for ffp.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 07:00:31PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team that has the objective
> to package Free Software that is relevant in Biology and Medicine for
> main Debian. There is an overview what we have assembled up to now[1].
>
> One of my users asked me to package your programm ffp-phylogeny[1]. The
> creation of package files went smoothly thanks to your well designed
> build system. The needed files are injected into our packaging
> repository[3].
>
> Unfortunately your license does not permit distribution by Debian since
> it is in contrast with item 5. and 6. with the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines[4] since commercial users / usage are discriminated by your
> license statement. I wonder whether you might consider to change your
> license to one of the common free licenses for instance GPL or BSD.
>
> Thanks for considering
>
> Andreas.
>
>
> [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffp-phylogeny/
> [3] http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/ffp/trunk/
> [4] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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