Can seq-gen put under free license completely since PAML is now put under GPL
Hi Andrew & Nick,
your seq-gen program[1] is maintained by the Debian Med team but
unfortunately not inside official Debian but in the non-free section.
This was due to the fact that PAML had a scientific use only free
license which is a usage restriction which makes it non-free according
to Debian rules. Thanks to Ziheng Yang PAML is no GPLed and it was
just accepted in official Debian.
Thus I checked whether we can also upload seq-gen to main Debian. I
realised that the files you took over from PAML are not part of the
source code any more since PAML development moved on and so the
functionality might have been implemented differently.
My question ist now: Are you interested in getting a free version of
seq-gen and either consider re-checking PAML source for current code or
would it may be the less stressful approach to ask Ziheng Yang for
relicensing of those files you are using in seq-gen. If you confirm
that you are interested but do not want to spent time on it I could
try to step in and ask for the latter.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/seqgen/
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