Help finding authors needed (Was: License of cluster3 becomes unspecified since you are linking to a non-existing URL)
Hi list,
both contacts of the Clustal 3.0 author I found
"M. J. L. de Hoon" <mdehoon@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mdehoon@c2b2.columbia.edu
bounced and I have also no contact to Michael Eisen. Any volunteer to
do some address research?
Thanks, Andreas.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 06:01:37PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello Michiel,
>
> I'm writing you again[1] about the license of Cluster 3.0.
> Unfortunately nothing has happended since then since I did not found any
> contact information.
>
> As license statement you are refering to
>
> http://rana.lbl.gov/EisenSoftwareSource.htm
>
> The fact that this URL does not exist any more is a good example why
> using URLs instead of an explicit license text is not a good idea. The
> current situation is that your software does not have any license at all
> any more which would even make it non-distributable even in the non-free
> area of the Debian mirror.
>
> I really appreciate that you agreed to a free license and I absolutely
> share your assumption that Michael Eisen would probably agree as well.
> Unfortunately I have no idea how to reach a person who could clarify the
> license. In any case it would be a really good start if you would use a
> free license for your own code and add the original license text to the
> downloadable file.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/02/msg00000.html
>
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