Re: Fwd: Lack of license for pal2nal

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hello Mikita,

I re-checked your web site and was not able to find the update that
includes the license statement.  Is there any chance for you to get
access to the web site to make this public?

Kind regards

    Andreas.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:59:04PM +0900, Mikita Suyama wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I put a sentence about the license to the script, so from now on, the script
> (pal2nal.pl v14.1) is licensed under GPL v2.0.
> At the moment, I don't have an access permission to the download site of
> PAL2NAL on the web, so I attached a tar.gz file that contains the modified
> script with the license declaration.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Mikita
> 
> 
> On 2017/10/10 18:48, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> > Hello Mikita,
> > 
> > This is wonderful news -- thank you very much! We really appreciate it.
> > 
> > Have a safe trip,
> > 
> > 2017-10-10 11:46 GMT+02:00 Mikita Suyama <mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp
> > <mailto:mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp>>:
> > 
> >     Hi Peer,
> > 
> >     Thank you for forwarding the message.
> > 
> > 
> >     Hello Michael,
> > 
> >     I will set GPL license to PAL2NAL to make the things clear.
> > 
> >     I'll modify the header of the code to clarify this license, and
> >     put it to the download site, and also send a copy to you.
> >     But, unfortunately, now I'm on my business trip and have little time
> >     to access the code. So, I'll do this as soon as I come back to the
> >     office, which will be on next Tuesday (Oct 17th).
> > 
> >     Best regards,
> > 
> >     Mikita
> > 
> >     --
> >     Mikita Suyama
> >     Medical Institute of Bioregulation
> >     Kyushu University
> >     mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp <mailto:mikita@bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
> > 
> > 
> >     On 2017/10/09 22:56, Peer Bork wrote:
> > >     Hi Mikita,
> > > 
> > >     I never thought about licenses, but having a gnu etc thingy might
> > >     be better than having it open source. Up to you
> > >     Best Wishes
> > >     P
> > > 
> > >     From the Road...
> > > 
> > >     Begin forwarded message:
> > > 
> > > >     *From:* "Michael R. Crusoe" <mrc@commonwl.org
> > > >     <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>>
> > > >     *Date:* 9. October 2017 at 15:34:49 GMT+2
> > > >     *To:* mikita@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> > > >     <mailto:mikita@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, bork@embl.de
> > > >     <mailto:bork@embl.de>
> > > >     *Cc:* "moeller@debian.org <mailto:moeller@debian.org>"
> > > >     <moeller@debian.org <mailto:moeller@debian.org>>, Debian Med
> > > >     Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org
> > > >     <mailto:debian-med@lists.debian.org>>, Pjotr Prins
> > > >     <pjotr2017@thebird.nl <mailto:pjotr2017@thebird.nl>>
> > > >     *Subject:* *Lack of license for pal2nal*
> > > > 
> > > >     Hello,
> > > > 
> > > >     I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a subgroup
> > > >     inside Debian with the objective to package free software in the
> > > >     field
> > > >     of biology and medicine for official Debian releases. We have
> > > >     packaged pal2nal but we can not distribute it as it has no license.
> > > > 
> > > >     Since Debian only distributes free software (for instance
> > > >     licensed under
> > > >     GPL, BSD or so) we are wondering whether you might consider to
> > > >     publish
> > > >     the source code of this software under a free license.
> > > > 
> > > >     The advantage would be that users of Debian / Ubuntu and its
> > > >     derivatives
> > > >     systems which are quite frequently used in bioinformatics could
> > > >     easily
> > > >     install your software.  You also get some additional quality
> > > >     assurance
> > > >     and I can confirm that all authors who decided to open source their
> > > >     software to enable the Debian Med packaging team were happy
> > > >     about this
> > > >     step since it contributed to a wider distribution of their
> > > >     software and
> > > >     a better user response.
> > > > 
> > > >     Kind regards and thanks for considering,
> > > > 
> > > >     --     Michael R. Crusoe
> > > >     Co-founder & Lead,
> > > >     Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/>
> > > >     https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670
> > > >     <https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670>
> > > >     mrc@commonwl.org <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael R. Crusoe
> > Co-founder & Lead,
> > Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/>
> > https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670
> > mrc@commonwl.org <mailto:mrc@commonwl.org>
> > +1 480 627 9108
> 
> 



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