Re: Fasta3 is non-free just because of some Smith Waterman implementation (Was: Please choose a free license for fasta3 components)

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

That is truly sad, indeed. Many thanks go to his widow and to Prof. Eddy
for caring. It is also an opportunity to think about how we as a
community can grow. A donation box for instance would never be enough to
feed the kids, but it would be something like a nice gesture about work
and his creator not being forgotten. We should possibly bring this up at
our next Sprint.

Thank for this pointer, Erik.

Steffen

On 20.08.19 11:07, Erik Sjölund wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Regarding "Alex has once contacted upstream" note the sad news from
> https://cryptogenomicon.org/2019/03/11/farrars-striped-simd-smith-waterman/
>
> Kind regards,
> Erik
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:06 PM Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> > you have uploaded fasta3.  When I wanted to upgrade to latest upstream I
> > realised that it is in non-free just because of two files implementing a
> > Smith Waterman algorithm.  Alex has once contacted upstream as you can
> > see on our SoftwareLiberation page[1].  At least the wiki page does not
> > state any response.
> >
> > I wonder whether you might try to ping upstream or possibly use libssw
> > or libsmithwaterman as a replacement.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >        Andreas.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation
> >
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