Re: Fwd: Lack of license for pal2nal

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi again Mikita,

I have not yet seen any change inside the download tarball.  Am I
missing something?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello Mikita,
> 
> I re-checked your web site and was not able to find the update that
> includes the license statement.  Is there any chance for you to get
> access to the web site to make this public?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>     Andreas.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:59:04PM +0900, Mikita Suyama wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > I put a sentence about the license to the script, so from now on, the script
> > (pal2nal.pl v14.1) is licensed under GPL v2.0.
> > At the moment, I don't have an access permission to the download site of
> > PAL2NAL on the web, so I attached a tar.gz file that contains the modified
> > script with the license declaration.
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
> > Mikita
> > 
> > 
> > On 2017/10/10 18:48, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> > > Hello Mikita,
> > > 
> > > This is wonderful news -- thank you very much! We really appreciate it.
> > > 
> > > Have a safe trip,
> > > 
> > > 2017-10-10 11:46 GMT+02:00 Mikita Suyama <mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp
> > > <mailto:mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp>>:
> > > 
> > >     Hi Peer,
> > > 
> > >     Thank you for forwarding the message.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     Hello Michael,
> > > 
> > >     I will set GPL license to PAL2NAL to make the things clear.
> > > 
> > >     I'll modify the header of the code to clarify this license, and
> > >     put it to the download site, and also send a copy to you.
> > >     But, unfortunately, now I'm on my business trip and have little time
> > >     to access the code. So, I'll do this as soon as I come back to the
> > >     office, which will be on next Tuesday (Oct 17th).
> > > 
> > >     Best regards,
> > > 
> > >     Mikita
> > > 
> > >     --
> > >     Mikita Suyama
> > >     Medical Institute of Bioregulation
> > >     Kyushu University
> > >     mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp <mailto:mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     On 2017/10/09 22:56, Peer Bork wrote:
> > > >     Hi Mikita,
> > > > 
> > > >     I never thought about licenses, but having a gnu etc thingy might
> > > >     be better than having it open source. Up to you
> > > >     Best Wishes
> > > >     P
> > > > 
> > > >     From the Road...
> > > > 
> > > >     Begin forwarded message:
> > > > 
> > > > >     *From:* "Michael R. Crusoe" <mrc@commonwl.org
> > > > >     <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>>
> > > > >     *Date:* 9. October 2017 at 15:34:49 GMT+2
> > > > >     *To:* mikita@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> > > > >     <mailto:mikita@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, bork@embl.de
> > > > >     <mailto:bork@embl.de>
> > > > >     *Cc:* "moeller@debian.org <mailto:moeller@debian.org>"
> > > > >     <moeller@debian.org <mailto:moeller@debian.org>>, Debian Med
> > > > >     Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org
> > > > >     <mailto:debian-med@lists.debian.org>>, Pjotr Prins
> > > > >     <pjotr2017@thebird.nl <mailto:pjotr2017@thebird.nl>>
> > > > >     *Subject:* *Lack of license for pal2nal*
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > >     I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a subgroup
> > > > >     inside Debian with the objective to package free software in the
> > > > >     field
> > > > >     of biology and medicine for official Debian releases. We have
> > > > >     packaged pal2nal but we can not distribute it as it has no license.
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Since Debian only distributes free software (for instance
> > > > >     licensed under
> > > > >     GPL, BSD or so) we are wondering whether you might consider to
> > > > >     publish
> > > > >     the source code of this software under a free license.
> > > > > 
> > > > >     The advantage would be that users of Debian / Ubuntu and its
> > > > >     derivatives
> > > > >     systems which are quite frequently used in bioinformatics could
> > > > >     easily
> > > > >     install your software.  You also get some additional quality
> > > > >     assurance
> > > > >     and I can confirm that all authors who decided to open source their
> > > > >     software to enable the Debian Med packaging team were happy
> > > > >     about this
> > > > >     step since it contributed to a wider distribution of their
> > > > >     software and
> > > > >     a better user response.
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Kind regards and thanks for considering,
> > > > > 
> > > > >     --     Michael R. Crusoe
> > > > >     Co-founder & Lead,
> > > > >     Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/>
> > > > >     https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670
> > > > >     <https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670>
> > > > >     mrc@commonwl.org <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Michael R. Crusoe
> > > Co-founder & Lead,
> > > Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/>
> > > https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670
> > > mrc@commonwl.org <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>
> > > +1 480 627 9108
> > 
> > 
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