Re: Please consider a free license for ffp-phylogeny

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi again,

may be summer holidays interrupted dealing with this issue.  Is
there any chance for having a freely licensed ffp soon?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:16:57AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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
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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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