Re: Embassy phylipnew - please use freely licensed source of phylip
Hi Peter,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:34:21PM +0100, Peter Rice wrote:
> This was a restoration of the 6.6.0 release files which had been lost when
> the FTP server was reset, and a correction of the file names which should
> have been .660 on the original FTP server.
Thanks for the clarification. However, do you see any chance to fetch
the new phylip sources which are not really different from the old ones
except they now have a free license. I'd even volunteer to assemble a
new tarball containing the new sources and do the needed patching if
somebody would check this and do an official release.
> The same applies to the other EMBASSY packages.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> regards,
>
> Peter Rice
> EMBOSS Team
>
> On 25/07/2016 10:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I realised that at the EMBASSY download ftpserver[1] files with new
> >version numbers appeared. I was specifically keen to check PHYLIPNEW
> >since I wanted to release a Debian package with the freely licensed
> >phylip. Unfortunately I realised that PHYLIPNEW-3.69.660.tar.gz is byte
> >identical to PHYLIPNEW-3.69.650.tar.gz - so no change in the source code
> >has happened at all.
> >
> >I wonder whether this is by mistake or what the version rename might
> >mean here. It would be really great if you could base the code on
> >version 3.696 of phylip since this version has a free license and could
> >be distributed in Debian main.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
> >[1] ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/
> >
>
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