Re: Please consider a free license for ffp-phylogeny
Dear Suzanne,
are there any news regarding the licensing of ffp-phylogeny?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:45:51PM -0800, Suzanne Storar wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> Thank you for contacting Berkeley Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office
> with your question re: Gregory Sims' program, ffp-phylogeny.
>
> Peter Bluford, cc'd, is the technology commercialization handling
> biosciences technologies. He can offer next steps forward.
>
> Best regards,
> Suzanne
>
>
>
> Suzanne T. Storar, P.E.
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> Communications and Outreach
> Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) - Lawrence Berkeley National
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> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> > Dear ladies and gentlemen,
> >
> > I was told by the copyright holder of ffp-phylogeny Gregory E. Sims that
> > I should address my question to the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab which
> > I'm hereby doing.
> >
> > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team that has the objective
> > to package Free Software that is relevant in Biology and Medicine for
> > main Debian. There is an overview what we have assembled up to now[1].
> >
> > One of my users asked me to package the programm ffp-phylogeny[1]. The
> > creation of package files went smoothly thanks to your well designed
> > build system. The needed files are injected into our packaging
> > repository[3].
> >
> > Unfortunately the license of ffp-phylogeny does not permit distribution
> > by Debian since it is in contrast with item 5. and 6. with the Debian
> > Free Software Guidelines[4] since commercial users / usage are
> > discriminated by your license statement. I wonder whether you might
> > consider to change this license to one of the common free licenses for
> > instance GPL or BSD.
> >
> > Thanks for considering
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
> > [1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
> > [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffp-phylogeny/
> > [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/ffp.git
> > [4] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> >
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