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RE: Debian project request



Just fyi - I am checking with UC Berkeley to see if theirs.

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Ainslie [mailto:sainslie@lbl.gov] 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 10:37 PM
To: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
Cc: Heidi Clark <hclark@lbl.gov>; Suzanne Storar <ststorar@lbl.gov>; Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian project request

Thanks. I’ll look into this after July 4th week as I’m on vacation. Just FYI, this looks an odd license if from Berkeley Lab as we typically use BSD. However it may be via UC Berkeley- we’re different places - so hence the confusion. 

Sebastian 

> On Jun 29, 2018, at 9:50 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My colleague who normally looks after this area is out sick so I will try help.
>> 
>> Can you actually show me the license this is under as I couldn’t see anything in the repo.?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We typically license under BSD.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sebastian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- 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> >
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 510-486-4306
>>> Communications and Outreach
>>> Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) - Lawrence Berkeley 
>>> National Laboratory - Berkeley, CA Available Technologies: 
>>> http://ipo.lbl.gov/tech-index/ *Follow us on Twitter: @techLBNL*
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:28 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu <mailto: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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