Re: Please consider a free license for tRNAscan-SE
Hi Todd,
thanks a lot. We'll try to package this new version as soon as it will
be released (you might like to ping here if you want to make sure).
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:46:29AM +0200, Todd Lowe wrote:
> 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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