Re: Please consider a free license for tRNAscan-SE
Hi Andreas,
Ok, we’ll GPL the next version — should be out in a month or so (with manual!!).
Best,
Todd
> On Aug 5, 2018, at 3:54 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
> Debian with the objective to package all free software that is used in
> medicine and life sciences for official Debian. You might possibly know
> that also tRNAscan-SE is packaged[1].
>
> Unfortunately the trnascan-se package does not belong to the official
> Debian distribution since this is not permitted by the licences of the
> single file src/trnascan.c has a license that has restrictions which are
> in conflict with the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2]. The "without
> charge" restriction moves the software out of any distribution medium a
> vendor might want to sell to users[item no. 1]. Its also lacking an
> explicit permission to modify the software.
>
> It would be really nice if you would consider using some of the well
> established free licenses like GPL or BSD to enable us to provide
> tRNAscan-SE in official Debian.
>
> Thanks for considering
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#trnascan-se
> [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>
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