Re: free license for ffp-phylogeny Fwd: Debian project request
Hi again Gregory,
I hope I did not miss anything. In short the requirement would be that you
publicly declare that ffp has a free license which overrides the COPYING file
inside the download tarball or even better release a new tarball replacing
the no-commercial-usage COPYING by a free for everybody one.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 09:36:27AM -0700, Sebastian Ainslie wrote:
> 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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