Re: Please consider free license for segemehl

[Steve Hoffmann <steve@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de>]

Dear Carnë,

we will soon release a new, officially GPLed version.

I will keep you updated!

Thank you very much
Steve

> Am 25.04.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>:
> 
> On 25 April 2017 at 12:52, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> I'd like to refresh my question about a free license for segemehl.
>> While the current release cycle for Debian 9 Stretch is closed it might
>> be interesting to integrate segemehl into the next stable Debian
>> release.  I guess you remember the well thought arguments from other
>> scientists for free source code but if you want I could assemble these
>> again for your kind reconsidering.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>>       Andreas.
> 
> But segemehl is linked to the GNU Scientific Library which is GPL.
> Can it even be non-free software?
> 
> Carnë

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