Re: Debian project request
Hi Sebastian,
thank you for your answer. I've downloaded the software from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffp-phylogeny/
The COPYING file says:
Copies of this software may be made without modification provided those
copies are in agreement with the license included in this distribution.
The terms of the license describing this software distribution expressly
prohibits commercial usage. For details see the file LICENSE included
in this directory of the distribution. For commercial licensing terms,
please contact the authors.
The AUTHORS file says:
Gregory E. Sims
gsims1997@yahoo.com
If this would be replaced by BSD license this would be perfect.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:11:21AM -0700, Sebastian Ainslie wrote:
> Andreas, hello.
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> My colleague who normally looks after this area is out sick so I will try help.
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> Can you actually show me the license this is under as I couldn’t see anything in the repo.?
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> We typically license under BSD.
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> Thanks
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu <mailto:andreas@an3as.eu> >
> Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Please consider a free license for ffp-phylogeny
> To: Suzanne Storar <ststorar@lbl.gov <mailto:ststorar@lbl.gov> >
> Cc: Peter Bluford <pbluford@lbl.gov <mailto:pbluford@lbl.gov> >, Berkeley Lab Innovation and Partnerships Office <ipo@lbl.gov <mailto:ipo@lbl.gov> >, Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-med@lists.debian.org> >
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> Dear Suzanne,
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> are there any news regarding the licensing of ffp-phylogeny?
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> Kind regards
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> Andreas.
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> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:45:51PM -0800, Suzanne Storar wrote:
> > Dear Andreas,
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> > Thank you for contacting Berkeley Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office
> > with your question re: Gregory Sims' program, ffp-phylogeny.
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> > Peter Bluford, cc'd, is the technology commercialization handling
> > biosciences technologies. He can offer next steps forward.
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> > Best regards,
> > Suzanne
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> > Suzanne T. Storar, P.E.
> > 510-486-4306
> > Communications and Outreach
> > Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) - Lawrence Berkeley National
> > Laboratory - Berkeley, CA
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> > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu <mailto:andreas@an3as.eu> > wrote:
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> > > Dear ladies and gentlemen,
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > Thanks for considering
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> > > Andreas.
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> > > [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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