RE: free license for ffp-phylogeny Fwd: Debian project request
Andreas. Please work with Gregory Simms on this. Our investigation through
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley Tech Transfer offices had neither of us at UC
owning the IP. It is all Gregory's and what he says goes. I believe he said
it was ok but please look back through his correspondence.
Best
Sebastian
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Tille [mailto:andreas@an3as.eu]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 4:51 AM
To: Suzanne Storar <ststorar@lbl.gov>; Gregory Sims <gsims1997@yahoo.com>
Cc: Berkeley Lab Intellectual Property Office <ipo@lbl.gov>; Peter Bluford
<pbluford@lbl.gov>; Sebastian Ainslie <sainslie@lbl.gov>; Debian Med Project
List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: free license for ffp-phylogeny Fwd: Debian project request
Hi again,
I hope I did not missed another mail of yours.
May be my answer was not clear enough. According to the Debian Free
Software Guidelines
https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
specifically item 8. "License Must Not Be Specific to Debian" it does not
help if we send something to you and you give permission. It is you who
needs to put the source code under a free license for everybody.
For the Debian release the latest version (if not all versions) would be
sufficient.
Hope this clarifies my request
Andreas.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:28:12PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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