Re: free license for ffp-phylogeny Fwd: Debian project request

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Suzanne, hi Gregory,

thanks for forwarding this mail.  I actially missed it - and can not
find it in my mail folder archive.

To answer Gregory's question:  We usually package the latest version -
in this case as far as I can see on sourceforge[1] version 3.19.  It
would help a lot if you could issue a "new version" (may be 3.19.1 or
so) where you replace the COPYING file by the text of a free license.

Thanks a lot

       Andreas.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffp-phylogeny/files/

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:22:03AM -0700, Suzanne Storar wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Regarding your inquiry, I had understood that Gregory Sims responded (see
> forwarded email below).
> 
> Please let me know if anything else is required to meet your request.
> 
> Best regards,
> Suzanne
> 
> Suzanne T. Storar, P.E.
> 510-486-4306
> Communications and Outreach
> Intellectual Property Office (IPO) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
> - Berkeley, CA
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> *From:* Gregory Sims <gsims1997@yahoo.com>
> *Date:* July 13, 2018 at 2:22:40 PM PDT
> *To:* Sebastian Ainslie <sainslie@lbl.gov>, "andreas@an3as.eu" <
> andreas@an3as.eu>
> *Subject:* *Re: FW: FW: Debian project request*
> 
> Andreas,
> 
> Then it is fine with me if you include the FFP code into a Debian package.
> Send me whatever release you need.
> 
> Gregory E. Sims, PhD
> 240-328-3327
> 
> 
> >>>> 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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